On 14/02/2012 09:18, Noah Gardiner wrote:
many thanks for info
adding that to my weblog now : )
> 'Mawlid' (moulid, مولد) means birthday, 'al-nabi' means the prophet,
> i.e. Muhammad. However, in many places there will also be mawlids
> celebrating the birthdays of various local Sufi saints (such as the
> mawlid for Sidi Abu al-Hajjaj in the article you cite). Mawlid
> traditions go back more than a millenia, but a lot of Salafis regard
> them as a heretical innovation, so they're controversial these days in
> some places. Nonetheless, throughout much of the Muslim world mawlids
> define the local ritual calendar, much as saints' days do in
> strongly-Catholic parts of Europe.
>
> - Noah
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