Aḥwash - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Aḥwash - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Rovsing Olsen, Miriam

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060634
Doc. NO	:	ALei1031
Main Entry	:	Rovsing Olsen, Miriam
Title & Author	:	Aḥwash - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Rovsing Olsen, Miriam
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(907 words)
Abstract	:	Aḥwash is a genre of singing and dancing emblematic of the tashlḥiyt -speaking Berbers of the Anti-Atlas and western and central High Atlas in Morocco. Performed in the open air during the mass village gatherings that punctuate agricultural, social, and religious life (marriages, circumcisions, and pilgrimages to the tombs of saints), it consists of improvised exchanges between individual poet-singers as well as choral singing in unison. The poet-singers, who must display mastery of both the vocal art and the prosody peculiar to this oral tradition, invoke the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1031.pdf