PIN, "SUFISM: Mystical Ecumenism" - Payvand's Iran News - Payvand, IranTuesday, February 3, 2009
Photography from Sufism's heartlands by Iason Athanasiadis
Travel through the heartlands of Sufism through the hypnotic images of Iason Athanasiadis.
The exhibition runs 5 February through 31 March at Harvard's Center for Government and International Studies (South Building) Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, 02138 USA
The Dunya Ensemble will perform music from Islam's mystical traditions at 18:30PM in the Tsai Auditorium
Opening reception sponsored by the ILEX Foundation
SUFISM: Mystical Ecumenism is a visual journey through Bilad ash-Sham, Khorassan and the Punjab chronicling the movement and rhythm of zikr, the ecstatic ceremony practiced by Sufi orders around the Muslim World.
Shot by photojournalist and 2008 Harvard Nieman fellow Iason Athanasiadis in present-day Iran, Pakistan, Syria and Turkey, it documents the extraordinary diversity of a mystical Islam gaining in popularity in the West but worryingly absent from media coverage of the world's most controversial religion.
Picture: Lefke
[Click on the title of the article to see many more pictures from the exhibition].
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