#sufism documentary

[cine-poeme]

“In Search of the Miraculous”

[zainab123]

A documentary on Masjid-e-Zahra Part IV. This video is in fact a short documentary which covers all important details construction of Masjid-e-Zahra. It is the latest documentary and undoubtedly the best documentary of all time about any Mosque. It is Urdu / Hindi documentary with English subtitles.

[fahadsk]

A documentary on Masjid-e-Zahra Part IV. This video is in fact a short documentary which covers all important details construction of Masjid-e-Zahra. It is the latest documentary and undoubtedly the best documentary of all time about any Mosque. It is Urdu / Hindi documentary with English subtitles.

[bijoumikhawal]

hello! i hope it's alright to ask you this but i was wondering if you have any recommendations for books to read or media in general about the history of judaism and jewish communities in egypt, particularly in ottoman and modern egypt?

have a nice day!

it's fine to ask me this! Unfortunately I have to preface this with a disclaimer that a lot of books on Egyptian Jewish history have a Zionist bias. There are antizionist Egyptian Jews, and at the very least ones who have enough national pride that AFAIK they do not publicly hold Zionist beliefs, like those who spoke in the documentary the Jews of Egypt (avaliable on YouTube for free with English subtitles). Others have an anti Egyptian bias- there is a geopolitical tension with Egypt from Antiquity that unfortunately some Jewish people have carried through history even when it was completely irrelevant, so in trying to research interactions between "ancient" Egyptian Jews and Native Egyptians (from the Ptolemaic era into the proto-Coptic and fully Coptic eras) I've unfortunately come across stuff that for me, as an Egyptian, reads like anti miscegenationist ideology, and it is difficult to tell whether this is a view of history being pushed on the past or not. The phrase "Erev Rav" (meaning mixed multitude), which in part refers to Egyptians who left Egypt with Moses and converted to Judaism, is even used as an insult by some.

Since I mentioned that documentary, I'll start by going over more modern sources. Mapping Jewish San Francisco has a playlist of videos of interviews with Egyptian Jews, including both Karaites and Rabbinic Jews iirc (I reblogged some of these awhile ago in my "actually Egyptian tag" tag). This book, the Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry, is avaliable for free online, it promises to be a more indepth look at Egyptian Jews in the lead up to modern explusion. I have only read a few sections of it, so I cannot give a full judgment on it. There's this video I watched about preserving Karaite historical sites in Egypt that I remember being interesting. "On the Mediterranian and the Nile edited by Harvey E. Goldman and Matthis Lehmann" is a collection of memiors iirc, as is "the Man in the Sharkskin Suit" (which I've started but not completed), both moreso from a Rabbinic perspective. Karaites also have a few websites discussing themselves in their terms, such as this one.

For the pre-modern but post-Islamic era, the Cairo Geniza is a great resource but in my opinion as a hobby researcher, hard to navigate. It is a large cache of documents from a Cairo synagogue mostly from around the Fatimid era. A significant portion of it is digitized and they occasionally crowd source translation help on their Twitter, and a lot of books and papers use it as a primary source. "The Jews in Medieval Egypt, edited by: Miriam Frenkel" is one in my to read pile. "Benjamin H. Hary - Multiglossia in Judeio-Arabic. With an Edition, Translation, and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll" is a paper I've read discussing the Jewish record of the events commemorated by the Cairo Purim, I got it off either Anna's Archive or libgen. "Mamluks of Jewish Origin in the Mamluk Sultanate by Koby Yosef" is a paper in my to read pile. "Jewish pietism of the Sufi type A particular trend of mysticisme in Medieval Egypt by Mireille Loubet" and "Paul B Fenton- Judaism and Sufism" both discuss the medieval Egyptian Jewish pietist movement.

For "ancient" Egyptian Jews, I find the first chapter of "The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD” by Simon Schama, which covers Elephantine, very interesting (it also flies in the face of claims that Jews did not marry Native Egyptians, though it is from centuries before the era researchers often cover). If you'd like to read don't click this link to a Google doc, that would be VERY naughty. There's very little on the Therapeutae, but for the paper theorizing they may have been influenced by Buddhism (possibly making them an example of Judeo-Buddhist syncretism) look here (their Wikipedia page also has some sources that could be interesting but are not specifically about them). "Taylor, Joan E. - Jewish women philosophers of first-century Alexandria: Philo’s Therapeutae reconsidered" is also a to read.

I haven't found much on the temple of Onias/Tell el Yahudia/Leontopolis in depth, but I have the paper "Meron M. Piotrkowski - Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period" in my to be read pile (which I got off Anna's Archive). I also have some supplemental info from a lecture I attended that I'm willing to privately share.

I also have a document compiling links about the Exodus of Jews from Egypt in the modern era, but I'm cautious about sharing it now because I made it in high school and I've realized it needs better fact checking, because it had some misinfo in it from Zionist publications (specifically about the names of Nazis who fled to Egypt- that did happen, but a bunch of names I saw reported had no evidence of that being the case, and one name was the name of a murdered resistance fighter???)

[kendrixtermina]

Gaza is NOT totalitarian

One thing you always hear from Zionists or even unaffiliated random westerners who know little about the conflict as a reason why the war is, if not completely justified, then at least tragically unavoidable, is that Gaza is a totalitarian regime & they’re either all indoctrinated to hate Israelis, or get portrayed as passive victims with no agency that need to be „liberated“

But over the last weeks we have seen a lot of scenes of life out of gaza and i have also read many books & watched documentaries to further educate myself and there is just no trace of that anywhere.

No big posters of leaders in classroom, no symbols & logos everywhere, no political phrases in people’s everyday speech, many of the people in videos seem totally a-political & lament that their family had nothing to do with the resistance or the war. They spend more time talking about friggin olive trees and embroidery than politics.

You could glean a bunch about their culture from the videos – extended families live together in big shared houses, they are very affectionate with children, they value community, the sport they tend to be obsessed about is Football…

Saudi arabia, for example, bans booze, art, music & forces everyone to wear burqas – that’s just not the case in Palestine. There are woman doctors & journalists, a wealth of poets & painters. You can buy booze grown in the west bank. You see the occasional lady without hijab, like Bisan often has her hair out, which tells me the ones that DO wear it do so because they want to, which is their good right. There were several Christian churches apparently operating just fine inside Gaza, until Israel bombed them.

I heard that 4th way esoterism was influenced by Sufism which is an off-shoot of Islam, & seeing the religious mantras people cited I could see the relationship - they said stuff like they should trust in God's destiny, that God alone is enough for them etc. it has that same "accept what is & surrender to the universe, real strength comes from contact with divinity & then you need nothing else" vibe - though of course the esoterists believe less in a personal god & more in a panentheist "Unity Of Being". Ppl used to make a lot of bogeyman talk out of Islam meaning "submission" but now I think it's probably meant in a "surrender to the universe & accept what is" kinda way & that ppl ended up projecting the authoritarian character of Christianity onto it. Islam is alot more de-central & everyone does their own thing, innit? I remember that when Muslims hit a certain percentage in Germany they thought of introducing Islam classes to school (in addition to the Catholic & Lutheran classes they have - atheists & ppl of other religions get "ethics" instead which is basically moral philosophy) but one problem they ran into is that there's no central authority to get a course plan from. There is no such thing as a muslim pope. There are extremists who ARE authoritarian, like Saudi arabia (as there are of all religions; They're all the same, rly, it's probably down to some flaw in human brains) but that doesn't mean everyone's like that. You might pt down the authoritarianism there to Saudi Arabia being an absolutist monarchy...

(Of course, a lot of less educated westerners don’t know that the kind of extremism seen in the Saudis & Taliban is actually a fairly recent movement that was able to take over due to the ME being destabilized in the cold war… the area was once stable, organized & well-educated.)

Some of the people covering the war like Bisan, Plestia, Saleh etc. were normal instagrammers before, doing normal instagram things, not a hint of politics to be found.

I also recall this post by a gay ude saying that yeah it’s not super welcoming but there’s not really systematic persecution – your family might kick you out or quietly tolerate it while wanting nothing to do with it… so just like the more religious parts of the USA basically.

Also, I’d like to note that even if gaza WERE totalitarian, people in totalitarian countries don’t cease to be human and their lives don’t become worthless. Not everyone is a True Believer, most are just scared out of their mind. You need to read „Jugend Ohne Gott“, you need to watch „Das Boot“, you need to listen to stories of people who escaped from North Korea. Maybe if it’s easier to epathize with a fictional depiction, read 1984 or The Handmaid’s tale.

So, I consider myself German because that’s where I grew up & the only culture I have any emotional attachment to, but my parents are Cuban. Cuba is a fairly „soft“ totalitarian state in that dissenters are „only“ beaten & their job prospects ruined, not outright killed like in North Korea or under the Nazis, but even so, my grandma still rips up all papers before throwing them away because spies would go through people’s trash, and my parents needed to be told several times by friends that it’s OK to criticize politicians in public before they would feel comfortable riffing on then.chancellor Kohl.

Note, however, that people DID mock the Castros in private, among trusted family members. There are tons of jokes mocking them. Heck, even mocked Hitler behind closed doors – they used to call them Flüsterwitze („whisper jokes“) because if you say them out loud they shoot you. Just to illustrate how people trapped in totalitarian states are human.

Even in the early 2000s when I was still pretty young, I didn’t buy that it’s OK to kill Iraqis just because there is a Dictator. The citizens are victims, and unlike the leadership they are poor & can’t flee. What if someone invaded Cuba and killed all my cousins just to punish the bad guy opressing them? That din’t seem fair. They said I’d understand when I’m older but all I understood is what utter bullshit that war was.

We’ve heard so many Palestinians talking about their plight and there is hardly anyone speaking of repression or totalitarianism, including peole who left the country. (In stark contrast to Cubans, North Koreans or people who fled the Nazis, who don’t shut up about how much it sucked) There is not zero repression (like an incident where Hamas got Fatah-affiliated workers fired), but the same can be said of Israel or even the west – McCarthyism or the current withhunt against pro-palestine ppl.

Meanwhile we have that creepy song of Israeli children calling for murder, and many videos by Israelis saying they were indoctrinated. One person mentioned being outright told that arabs were their „enemy“, while two arab boys were sitting in her class. I also hear that many Israelis go most of their lives without even interacting with a Palestinian outside of military service.

So, yeah, I think it’s pretty clear who the indoctrinated ones are.

[assyriangoatfaerie]

just some personal favorites:

Jacob Geller is basically an English major who loves video games

Ancient Americas makes videos about mainly precolumbian Amerindian cultures

Bobby Broccoli has a really unique animation style and talks a lot about scandals and debacles in the history of science, though not exclusively

Like Stories of Old is basically an English/Philosophy major who loves movies

Exploring History does a mix of looking at history and looking at current events through an (academically informed) historical lense

Esoterica is all about the occult and arcane aspects of religion and philosophy (so basically like cryptotheism) and is hosted by a guy who is a professor of this stuff

MiniMinuteMan is very funny and tackles a mix of archeology and debunking pseudo-archeology

Rare Earth tends to make shorter videos than the rest I've been recommending (usually 10-20 minutes), but they're just so very good. The host, Evan Hatfield is a really thoughtful guy, and the channel is a series of essentially short documentaries shot all around the world.

Angela Collier is fairly new on YouTube and makes videos mostly about physics and academia.

Let's Talk Religion recently got his PhD in religious studies, and makes videos on a variety of religious topics, but his specialty iirc is Sufism.

do any of u have any recommendations for utube channels that make long style videos on like . video essays or news or pop culture or history or anything interesting etc etc pls 🤲🤲

[goharshahi]

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[tabsq2025]

جس مبارک ہستی کی خبر سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھُوؒ نے کئی صدیوں پہلے دی تھی وہ اعلیٰ و ارفع شان سے متصف ہستی شانِ فقر‘ آفتابِ فقر‘ سلطان العاشقین حضرت سخی سلطان محمد نجیب الرحمن مدظلہ الاقدس کی ذاتِ مبارکہ ہے۔ آپ مدظلہ الاقدس سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھو رحمتہ اللہ علیہ کے سلسلہ سروری قادری کے اکتیسویں شیخ ِکامل ہیں۔ 

[whassan2025]

سلطان العاشقین حیاتِ حسنہتحریر: مسز عنبرین مغیث سروری قادری (ایم اے ابلاغیات) جو عَالَمِ ا یجاد میں ہے صاحب ِ ا یجادہر دور میں کرتا ہے طواف اس کا زمانہ آج سے تقریباً تین سو سال قبل

[rb-sq]

جس مبارک ہستی کی خبر سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھُوؒ نے کئی صدیوں پہلے دی تھی وہ اعلیٰ و ارفع شان سے متصف ہستی شانِ فقر‘ آفتابِ فقر‘ سلطان العاشقین حضرت سخی سلطان محمد نجیب الرحمن مدظلہ الاقدس کی ذاتِ مبارکہ ہے۔ آپ مدظلہ الاقدس سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھو رحمتہ اللہ علیہ کے سلسلہ سروری قادری کے اکتیسویں شیخ ِکامل ہیں۔ مزید پڑھنے کے لئے نیچے دیئے گئے لنک کو وزٹ کریں۔

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[amberriaz]

جس مبارک ہستی کی خبر سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھُوؒ نے کئی صدیوں پہلے دی تھی وہ اعلیٰ و ارفع شان سے متصف ہستی شانِ فقر‘ آفتابِ فقر‘ سلطان العاشقین حضرت سخی سلطان محمد نجیب الرحمن مدظلہ الاقدس کی ذاتِ مبارکہ ہے۔ آپ مدظلہ الاقدس سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھو رحمتہ اللہ علیہ کے سلسلہ سروری قادری کے اکتیسویں شیخ ِکامل ہیں۔

[book-cold]

جس مبارک ہستی کی خبر سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھُوؒ نے کئی صدیوں پہلے دی تھی وہ اعلیٰ و ارفع شان سے متصف ہستی شانِ فقر‘ آفتابِ فقر‘ سلطان العاشقی�� حضرت سخی سلطان محمد نجیب الرحمن مدظلہ الاقدس کی ذاتِ مبارکہ ہے۔ آپ مدظلہ الاقدس سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھو رحمتہ اللہ علیہ کے سلسلہ سروری قادری کے اکتیسویں شیخ ِکامل ہیں۔ مزید پڑھنے کے لئے نیچے دیئے گئے لنک کو وزٹ کریں۔

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[khalid-saman]

جس مبارک ہستی کی خبر سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھُوؒ نے کئی صدیوں پہلے دی تھی وہ اعلیٰ و ارفع شان سے متصف ہستی شانِ فقر‘ آفتابِ فقر‘ سلطان العاشقین حضرت سخی سلطان محمد نجیب الرحمن مدظلہ الاقدس کی ذاتِ مبارکہ ہے۔ آپ مدظلہ الاقدس سلطان العارفین حضرت سخی سلطان باھو رحمتہ اللہ علیہ کے سلسلہ سروری قادری کے اکتیسویں شیخ ِکامل ہیں۔