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...century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder musicians are Pakistan's Faiz Ali Faiz, whose trance-inducing qawwali rhythms draw deeply on Sufi traditions and Indian raga, and Florencio Mess, the rootsy Belizian harpist who personally crafts new instruments for each new performance. As well as the eclectic international fare, you can pick up on some local culture: the festival is held on the seven-hectare grounds of the Sarawak Cultural Village...
...ancient sounds of the Japanese harp giving way, in one piece, to the ringing of tuned glass bottles. In the shifting tones, a faint harmony seems just out of reach. Lim likens the effect to "birdsong beginning inside the egg," a phrase she quotes from the 13th century Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. Even classical audiences can find Lim's music obscure. "The point for Liza is not about winning a popularity contest," says her husband and collaborator Buckley, who studied with Lim at Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts. "It's not a conversation saying to the audience...
...worldwide many Muslim women embrace the strict gender divisions in traditional Islam, in the U.S. a movement is afoot to meld the Western view of gender equality with Muslim teachings. "The newer generation wants to emerge with its own American Muslim identity," says Daisy Khan, director of the American Sufi Muslim Association. Scholars can cite no clear Koranic ban on female leaders, and Wadud thinks women's inequality is not a tenet of the faith but a mark of misguided tradition. "That's where most of the rules came along to say women cannot do things," she says...
...items on display are usually found in Istanbul, in the Topkapi Palace Museum and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art. Many are appearing for the first time outside Turkey, including a set of drawings commonly attributed to "Mohammad of the Black Pen." These kinetic images depicting nomads, Sufi dervishes and demons and dating from 14th and 15th century Central Asia are not, in fact, by a single artist. They "must be the earliest surviving examples in the Turkic world of pictures made for display during recitals of stories," says Filiz Çagman, one of the show's curators...
...markets?their warm hues and intricate tribal patterns are showing up in carpet showrooms from Sydney to San Francisco. Unfortunately, clever imitations are turning up, too. So how does a novice buyer spot the fakes? We asked two experts?third-generation carpet trader Abdul Tawab and his father, Hajji Sufi Abdul Wahid?for advice. The pair hail from Herat, the center of Afghanistan's carpet business, but moved to the Pakistani capital Islamabad 20 years ago, after fleeing the Afghan-Soviet war. There, Wahid set up the family shop, Herat Carpets, and today father and son stock some...