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Chapters: Aissawa, Bab Berdieyinne Mosque, Meknes-Tafilalet, Bou Inania Madrasa, Aguelmame Sidi Ali Lake. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Aissawa (also Aissawa, Issawa, Aissaoua, Issaoua) is a religious and mystical brotherhood and order founded in Meknes, Morocco by Muhammad Ben Aissa (14651526), best known as the Chaykh Al-Kamil (translated as the Perfect Sufi Master). The terms Aissawiyya (Isawiyya) and Aissawa (Isawa), came from the name of the founder, designate respectively the brotherhood (tariqa, litt. "way") and its disciples (fuqara, sing. to fakir, litt. "poor"). The Aissawa are known for their spiritual music characterized by the use of the oboe ghaita (syn. mizmar, zurna), of collective songs of religious psalms accompanied by an orchestra of percussions using polyrhythm. Their complex ceremony, which use symbolic dances bringing the participants to ecstatic trance, take place in the private sphere during domestic rituals nights (lila-s), and also in the public sphere during celebrations of national festivals (the moussem-s, which are also pilgrimages) and touristic (folk spectacles) or religious festivities (Ramadan, mawlid or birth of the Prophet) organized by the Moroccan and Algerian States. The founder of the Aissawa brotherhood remains a somewhat enigmatic character whose genealogy is always prone to controversy. His hagiography sends to us the image of a sufi master and legendary ascetic of a considerable spiritual influence. His mausoleum is today in the Zaouia that he build himself in Meknes, holy house where today several people come to pray and to participate to mystical and religious acts of piety, individual or collective. Muhammad Ben Aissa was initiated with the Sufism by three masters of the tariqa Shadhiliyya/Jazu...http: //booksllc.net/?id=6428370