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Student at the Khalifa Mosque Koran school

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Description: A young student at the Khalifa Mosque Koran school sitting behind a wooden board on which he hand wrote verses from the Koran.

Sufi devotee at the Ismailia Sufi Festival

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Description: Portrait of a Sufi devotee attending the Ismailia Sufi festival in El Obeid.

Koranic charms

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Description: Leather bound koranic charms in a Rezeigat tent

Students at the Khalifa Mosque Koran school

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Description: Young student boys at the Khalifa Mosque Koran school sitting in a long line with the wooden boards on which they wrote verses from the Koran.

Sufi devotee at the Ismailia Sufi Festival

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Description: Portrait of a Sufi devotee attending the Ismailia Sufi festival in El Obeid.

Friday Worship At The Hamed Al-Nile Mosque In Omdurman

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Description: Friday afternoon worship, incorporating Sufi song and dance, at the tomb of Hamed Al-Nile Mosque in Omdurman, Sudan.

Khalifa Mosque Koran School

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Description: Boys study reading and writing the koran at the Khalifa Mosque Koranic School in Omdurman. Most come from outside Sudan. They live at the school, devoted to reading and memorising the Koran. Writing out extracts onto wooden boards. They go on to higher institutes of Islam learning and may become Imams or Islamic scholars. The singer is Omar Adam A Bakar and the writer is Ibrahim Hussein Mohamad.

Ismailia Sufi Festival

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Description: Ismailya Sufis in El Obiad, Sudan, celebrate the birthday of the founder of their order, Ash-Shaikh Ismail Alwali ibn Abdullah ibn Ismail (1793-1863). The Ismailya Order was founded in 1821 AD (1241 H) and is the only genuine and original Sudanese Sufi order, as all the Sufi orders in Sudan were introduced by Shaikhs from outside the country. The Ismailyia Sufi Order is spread widely in North Kordofan, Ondurman, White Nile and in Northern States, with an estimated following of 25,000 people.

Sufi devotees at the Ismailia Sufi Festival

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Description: Sufi devotees listening to a sermon at the Ismailia Sufi festival in El Obeid.

Sufi devotee at the Ismailia Sufi Festival

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Collection: westernsudancommunitymuseums.photographs

Description: Portrait of a Sufi devotee attending the Ismailia Sufi festival in El Obeid.

Sufi devotee at the Ismailia Sufi Festival

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Collection: westernsudancommunitymuseums.photographs

Description: Portrait of a Sufi devotee attending the Ismailia Sufi festival in El Obeid.

Student from Khalifa Mosque Koran school

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Collection: westernsudancommunitymuseums.photographs

Description: A young student at the Khalifa Mosque Koran school sitting behind a wooden board on which he hand wrote verses from the Koran.

Sufi devotees at the Ismailia Sufi Festival

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Collection: westernsudancommunitymuseums.photographs

Description: Sufi devotees praying together at the Ismailia Sufi festival in El Obeid.

Students at the Khalifa Mosque Koran school

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Collection: westernsudancommunitymuseums.photographs

Description: Young student boys at the Khalifa Mosque Koran school sitting in a long line with the wooden boards on which they wrote verses from the Koran.