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Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran" (Duke UP, 2022)

New Books in Islamic Studies

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What's Happening in Zicker?

The next chapter focuses on the ritual practices of zicker and fun. In these cases accompanied by music, not always but they had musical accompaniment. I was really interested in trying to get lay people's understanding of the goal of the zick as articulated by the groups themselves which is fanno. Fennel for them was sort of removal from everyday problems thinking about unemployment.

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