Ramadan - An Inward Time

Series produced by Russ Jennings

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The Islamic holiday of Ramadan in music, poetry and teaching

In the year 610, in the lunar month of Ramadan, Muhammad was given the Koran, the core text of Islam. For fourteen hundred years, Muslims around the world commemorate this event with a month of fasting, self-examination, and prayer.

These two short pieces feature Shaykh Ibrahim al Ansari & Shaykh Taner Ansari, both living in California and leading a community of the Qadiri-Rifai tariqa, a Turkish Sufi order. Each piece contains a teaching by one of the two shaykhs and a Rumi poem (read by Soo Han), over Sufi music by Suleyman Erguner. The poems were selected by Rumi’s transelator, Colman Barks.

These pieces are short, and can be inserted into magazine format programs. They offer a way for Americans to learn a bit about the power and spirituality of Islam, in a time when it is only caricatured in the corporate media.


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The Islamic holiday of Ramadan in music, poetry and teaching.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KISU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2005
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 6
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The Islamic holiday of Ramadan in music, poetry and teaching.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KISU, WGBH Radio Boston, and KZUM


  • Added: Sep 24, 2005
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 5