{"id":812,"date":"2014-07-06T14:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=812"},"modified":"2014-07-06T20:39:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:39:37","slug":"from-spiritual-soundscape-to-musical-soundscape-nurjan-hapiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"From Spiritual Soundscape to Musical Soundscape: Nurjan Hapiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-AU\">From Spiritual Soundscape to Musical Soundscape: Nurjan Hapiz, a brother who sings his beliefs<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Mukaddas Mijit <\/strong>(University of Paris, Nanterre, France)<\/span><\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_704\" class=\"wp-caption     alignright\" style=\"width: 434px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SOAS_Con_10Jan20149.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-704\" style=\"border: 0px solid white;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SOAS_Con_10Jan20149.jpg\" alt=\"Islamic Soundscape of China conference at SOAS, on January 10, 2014, University of London\" width=\"424\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SOAS_Con_10Jan20149.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SOAS_Con_10Jan20149-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SOAS_Con_10Jan20149-136x104.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>\u00a0<\/dd>\n<dd>Islamic Soundscape of China conference at SOAS, on January 10, 2014, University of London<\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">In the city of Ghulja in the Ili Valley, the Islamic soundscape was entirely Sufi before 1950. In the memories of people who experienced this period,\u00a0<em>zikr<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>mawlid<\/em>\u00a0were fundamental to religious practice in this region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Several\u00a0<em>khaniqa<\/em>\u00a0(Sufi gathering houses) were the essence of the social structure of Ghulja. People gathered in these holy places at least once a week to pray, prepare and eat holy food:\u00a0<em>khaniqa \u00e9shi<\/em>. For more rigorous followers\/brothers, the\u00a0<em>khaniqa<\/em>\u00a0were the places where they gathered every day to listen to beautiful\u00a0<em>talqin<\/em>\u00a0(solo chanting of spiritual poetry), moving their body to the rhythms of\u00a0<em>zikr<\/em>\u00a0which led them into ecstasy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">The unusual life story of one of the last Sufi brothers of Ghulja, Nurjan Hapiz, provides an overview of spiritual life in this particular town in the north of the Uyghur region; the function of these\u00a0<em>khaniqa<\/em>, the question of initiation, the practice of\u00a0<em>talqin<\/em>, transmission, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, all Sufi activities were banned, the holy books were burned and<em>khaniqa<\/em>\u00a0were demolished. I will discuss how Nurjan Hapiz\u2019s beliefs and knowledge survived these dark moments in the history of Sufism. I will analyze how Sufism came through prohibition and how it actively changed its form by becoming a part of the Uyghur musical landscape. We will question how this forbidden practice became present in Uyghur traditional music and how people talk about it nowadays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">WATCH:<\/span><strong> \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=843\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=843<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Spiritual Soundscape to Musical Soundscape: Nurjan Hapiz, a brother who sings his beliefs Mukaddas Mijit (University of Paris, Nanterre, France) \u00a0 Islamic Soundscape of China conference at SOAS, on January 10, 2014, University of London &nbsp; Abstract In the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=812\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,95],"tags":[112,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}