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01/09/2024

Pilgrimage to Barda

In 2016, Jesko Schmoller travelled to the village of Barda, in the region of Perm, Russia. There, he followed some inhabitants as they planned a pilgrimage. This article shows some drone footage recorded during that experience.

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04/05/2022

Dervish Luzha, the Tropoja Mountain’s Ora, 2009, by Gianfranco Bria

This extract summarises the main features of Dervish Luzha’s hagiography. Its author is Nuredin Sadik Lushaj, a scholar of folk traditions from Tropoja (in the north of Albania). The ora mentioned in the title is a figure of northern Albanian mythology, known primarily north of the Drin River.

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01/27/2022

‘The Barefoot Saint’ of Kujtim Ahmataj, 2008, by Nathalie Clayer

English Translation I had brought several containers with goods from China and I gave them to a young man called Tani, who worked at the Çams market, to sell them for me. I was in constant contact [with him] for the smooth running of the work. One day I…

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01/27/2022

The First Tombstone of Ishan ‘Aziz Khwaja, Qizil Qal‘a, Tajikistan (1997), by Stéphane Dudoignon

Latin Transcription Gawhar-i baḥr-i faṣāḥat partaw, aḫtar-i balāġat, ṣāḥib-i iršād-i niyābat yaʿnī ḥażrat-i Īšān ʿAzīz Ḫwāja ibn-i Mullā Muḥammad-Nabī Ḫwāja wa wālida-yi īšān Bībī Ḥurr al-Nisa bint-i Īšān Sayyid Mīrzā Ḫwāja būda ki ba čand pušt ba ḥażrat-i Sayyid Mīr-i ʿArab wa ḥażrat Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn wa ḥażrat Imām Jaʿfar-i Ṣādiq…