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Movement, & Music in Spirituality & Self/Social Transformation

Dance, Music, & Spirituality in Sufism

Photo Essay

Doing Salat / Sacrilizating Space

Members of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order often "stamp the earth with the name of God" (Werbner, 1996), meaning they sacralize, through the performance of salat (prayer), otherwise secular spaces. Exhibited at the Shared Sacred Project at the University of Cambridge. 

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Ethnographic Documentary

Zikr: 99 Remembrances

A 14-min  ethnographic documentary about the zikr, the continuous chanting of the 99 names of God in Sufism. 

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Photo Essay

Silsilah

Master-disciple relationship, a link in a chain that connects contemporary Sufis to the Prophet. 

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Speculative sound ethnography

& Curatorial Project

Co-curated along Yuka Takahashi an online exhibit on speculative methods for anthropological thinking, imagining an alternative reality to Euro-American colonization, hosted at Osaka University, Japan. Co-authored with Anthropologist of Technology Chakad Ojani an experimental multimodal ethnographic recording.

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Ethnographic GIF Art

Dhamaal sonic ecstacy

Rhythms of sounds and bodily movement align in ecstatic moments of Faan'a, the Sufi concept of the elimination of ego in the love of god. 

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