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Chechen female mystical Sufi ceremony
Chechen female zikr...
Chechen women performing a zikr (dhikr), a Sufi mystical ceremony. By chanting certain formulas and controlling the respiration, collective trance can be achieved. These women are part of the Kunta Haji tariqa (a Sufi brotherhood/sisterhood), which in its turn is simply the local, Chechen version of the Qadiriya brotherhood, known all over the Muslim world.
Men are not allowed to watch or take part (don’t ask me how I pulled this off). As can be seen, they wait outside, in the courtyard.
The final sequence, ending on the blinding white of a soldier’s light reflector shows the atmosphere of Grozny by night on the eve of the first Russian invasion.
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Chechen women performing a zikr (dhikr), a Sufi mystical ceremony. By chanting certain formulas and controlling the respiration, collective trance can be achieved. These women are part of the Kunta Haji tariqa (a Sufi brotherhood/sisterhood), which in its turn is simply the local, Chechen version of the Qadiriya brotherhood, known all over the Muslim world.
Men are not allowed to watch or take part (don’t ask me how I pulled this off). As can be seen, they wait outside, in the courtyard.
The final sequence, ending on the blinding white of a soldier’s light reflector shows the atmosphere of Grozny by night on the eve of the first Russian invasion.
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La Athos cu Becali (2011)
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La Athos cu Becali... 6 min. de peliculă brută, rough footage, needitată, din ce am filmat în pelerinajul pe care l-am făcut de Paşti 2011 la Muntele Athos cu Gigi Becali. Am filmat ascensiunea noastră a muntelui, cu alai de călugări și 14 măgăruși cu merinde, în ideea de a face un film, care încă nu și-a găsit forma. Întrebarea este: cum îl filmezi pe Becali? Doar cadrajul brut, fără estetism,...
A mountain village in Sufi Chechnya...
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This Chechen village hosts the tomb of a holy woman: the mother of Kunta Haji, the man who brought the Qadirya Sufi brotherhood in pagan Chechnya, in the XIXth century. As the imam says in the fascinating local dialect, Kunta Haji will come at the end of the world, together with Jesus, like a new Mahdi. Scenes of daily life, children, cows, snow, autarchy... Sufi Chechnya before the Russian inv...
Life in Chechnya before the war...
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I just love the drunk, smoking firemen, like in a scene from Mad Max, pretending to extinguish a huge bonfire at a petrol installation. After they finally put it off (with a tank shot !), we see bits of daily life in Grozny, before the city was to be obliterated by the Russian aviation, all culminating with a march of the Sufis through central Grozny. I will later post the complete collective t...
A burial Sufi ceremony in a Chechen village...
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Sufi burial ceremony in the Chechen village of Mairtup After some shots of the village, the video shows a collective trance ceremony, complete with a beautiful example of male polyphony, followed by a zikr (mystical ritual), accompanied by drums and in which the women of the village also take part(!). For their peculiar use of drums, these Chechen dervishes have been called "barabanshchiki" (dr...
A virtual visit to a Sufi shrine in Chechnya
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L'après-midi d'un Soufi A virtual visit to a Sufi shrine in the mountains of Chechnya (close to Vedeno). Rough footage from my next movie "A Chechen Confession". The old guardian of this shrine (which also hosts the tomb of a holy woman, the daughter of Shamil, the Caucasian saint and hero) is ritually cleaning himself before going into the tomb. A visual guide to the toilet of a Sufi. The film...
Chechen (Ingush) mystical Sufi ceremony
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Rough footage from my next movie A Chechen Confession (time-code left on for copyright reasons)... a film about reporting and about whether it is possible at all to reflect "reality" in a movie, which is by definition a subjective construction of edited images and sounds. The film will have as a pretext my experience in Chechnya and it will decrypt the most common myths about the Chechens, incl...
"Nuptial dance" - Sufi ritual in Kosovo
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The nuptial dance (filmed by Dan Alexe, end of the 1990s) A Qadiri Sufi ceremony in the city of Djakova, Kosovo. The Dervishes are Gypsies.
Chechen mystical Sufi ceremony
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Scene from the future movie A Chechen Confession, by Dan Alexe. The film decrypts the most common myths about the Chechens, including the widely accepted one about their supposed presence among anti-Western Islamist fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is also a presentation of the traditional Chechen brands of Sufi Islam and of the local ceremonies. Here: the zikr of the Gunoy teip (tribe).
La grande cérémonie d'initiation soufie
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Les Amoureux de Dieu: un film sur les confréries mystiques musulmanes (les derviches) de l'ex-Yougoslavie. Réalisateur: Dan Alexe, Belgique, 1998 cf. www.cabalinkabul.com
Le couvent des derviches
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Les Amoureux de Dieu: un film sur les confréries mystiques musulmanes (les derviches) de l'ex-Yougoslavie. Réalisateur: Dan Alexe, Belgique, 1998 cf. www.cabalinkabul.com
La musique des derviches
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Les Amoureux de Dieu: un film sur les confréries mystiques musulmanes (les derviches) de l'ex-Yougoslavie. Réalisateur: Dan Alexe, Belgique, 1998 cf. www.cabalinkabul.com
Le dhikr (zikr, cérémonie mystique) de Baba Ekrem
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Les Amoureux de Dieu: un film sur les confréries mystiques musulmanes (les derviches) de l'ex-Yougoslavie. Réalisateur: Dan Alexe, Belgique, 1998 cf. www.cabalinkabul.com
The great mystical initiation
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Howling for God: a movie about the Howling Dervishes of former Yougoslavia. Director: Dan Alexe Belgium, 1998.
The convent of the dervishes
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Howling for God: a movie about the Howling Dervishes of former Yougoslavia. Director: Dan Alexe, Belgium, 1998. cf. www.cabalinkabul.com
Baba Ekrem's dhikr (mystical ceremony)
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Baba Ekrem's dhikr (mystical ceremony)
Last two Afghan Jews fighting each other
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Last two Afghan Jews fighting each other
Isaac the Afghan Jew heals a Tajik soldier's wife
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Isaac the Afghan Jew heals a Tajik soldier's wife
Isaac le kabbaliste juif guérit la femme d'un soldat Tadjik
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Isaac le kabbaliste juif guérit la femme d'un soldat Tadjik
La dispute des deux derniers Juifs afghans
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La dispute des deux derniers Juifs afghans
those improvised skis are awesome😂😂
Funny but horrifyingly sad when you think about it. A community of thousands of years wiped out to ZERO international condemnation
😂😂
Every we’re they go they cause trouble the bassturds
Is that luxury living over there?
This is simply brilliant. I laughed so hard. Zebulon can’t stop talking and this guy can’t stop responding.
The funniest thing about this whole argument is that there are no extremely vulgar words during the argument
He is a crook 😂😂
It's nothing to do with jews. That part is obviously fake. The Islamists will kill anyone who doesn't follow their master, satan. Satan is the leader of islam.
Satan is the leader of your mothers gaping buttt hole 🍩
A pimp..a sorcerer...a scoundrel = triple goy.
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Persian Jews of Afghanistan
Typical Jews
got this cinematic treasure in my reccomended 16 long years later
This man look scammer
The translation is wrong. Zebulon did say goy but not pimp. "Mordeh" in Persian means the dead. He accused Zebulon to swear at his wife and his dead ancestors. Plus the cameraman is also Jewish and his name is Dan.
Afghani jews 😳 i still can't believe. Jews once lived in Afghanistan? I think all those once converted to islam
I owe an apology to Zebulon after these Tajik women treatment with some bullshit magic.
I read this in the globe and mail 20 years ago
2024… nothing has changed, unfortunately
Persian has a unique collection of gentlemanly insults 😂
Summarises the Jewish very well. Apparently Palestinians are actually the only ethnically “Jewish “ but who cares when you work in banking and come from Europe to colonise another’s land ? Not me not us apparently.
Now, thats a great recommandation actually!
Future of Israel
Jews will fight mirror, if they find none else.
This fighting looks more peaceful than modern days peace talkings
No one search for this
"Old pimp rascal" "debauched gay.....and tripple gay" got me laughing need to add debauched to my vocab 😂🤣 these 2 oldschoolers are kind of cute no homo.
Disgusting language but one Afghan whatever religion.
Oof. The "triple goy" was mean.
Zabulon is a badass
That "Please, God, make Isaac blind" line was like a scene from Borat
Frigedy fudge..This was 16 years ago!!!!!!!!!
I like the way he turns to the cameraman, Dan, at the end and says "I wasn't even talking about him" as if the audience and Dan would forget that he was definitely and explicitly talking smack about Zabulon.
When he says, triple goy, he’s actually saying “Man Nesārā, man Gabr, man Tarsā, to xub” Which means: I’m a Christian, a Zoroastrian, a Theosebeis, [I’m bad], you’re good.
This is an excellent recomendation. 'I piss on your beard' is my new favorite insult.
" I piss on your beard, and on your father's" is such a legendary insult. It reminds me of Monty Python lol
when he said that he was nice to his family and there was a moment of silence, I thought maybe zabulon got emotional but no... "Triple goy" it is...
There were jewish friends of my mom in university in Kabul. My dad has also memories of jewish Uni friends in Polytechnic Kabul. Most of them never wanted to leave Afghanistan & had NO, absolutely NO problems. People used to visit them from israel every year & wanted them to go to israel. Some said they were pushed too far and they never wanted.
CZcams never fails to amuse me with their random suggestions.
Is this a sitcom or something?? Cos if it is, I want to watch the whole series.
Is he handing out eviction notices?
That is a double whammy : Jew AND and Afghan.
Zabulon is Zionist, and this man is a Jew.
Nothing, just a friend trolling another 😂
Fascinating
This could be a scene in Curb your enthusiasm
OLD PIMP lmao
Zabulon was right! Isaac was cheating everyone with his fake charms!😂😂😂😂 Old pimp! Rascal! Sorcerer! Scoundrel! Triple goy!
I can understand what he says I really don't know why