Zawiya

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Interior ornamentation and furnishings, Zawiya of Mawlay Idriss, Fez.

Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya

Related Terms:

  • Khanqah (Sufi lodge)
  • Minaret (tower in a mosque for calling to prayer)
  • Ziyara (devotional visitation)

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Aillet, Cyrille and Bulle Tuil Leonetti, eds. Dynamiques religieuses et relation au sacré dans le Maghreb médiéval. Éléments d’enquête. Madrid: Consejo Superior de investigaciones  científicas, 2015. Aillet, Cyrille and Bulle Tuil Leonetti, eds. Dynamiques religieuses et relation au sacré dans le Maghreb médiéval. Éléments d’enquête. Madrid: Consejo Superior de investigaciones  científicas, 2015.

Blair, Sheila. “Sufi Saints and Shrine Architecture in the Early Fourteenth Century,” Muqarnas 7 (1990): 35–49. Blair, Sheila. “Sufi Saints and Shrine Architecture in the Early Fourteenth Century,” Muqarnas 7 (1990): 35–49.

Blair, Sheila, Jonathan Katz, and Constant Hamès. “Zāwiya.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by Th. Bianquis, P. Bearman, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs, volume 7, 466–470. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Blair, Sheila, Jonathan Katz, and Constant Hamès. “Zāwiya.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by Th. Bianquis, P. Bearman, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs, volume 7, 466–470. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Chekhab-Abudaya, Mounia. “Inner Visions: Art Practice and Sufi Devotion in Morocco at the Turn of the Fourteenth/Twentieth Century,” Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World 3/2 (2023): 267–298. Chekhab-Abudaya, Mounia. “Inner Visions: Art Practice and Sufi Devotion in Morocco at the Turn of the Fourteenth/Twentieth Century,” Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World 3/2 (2023): 267–298.

Cornell, Vincent. “Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī and the Place of Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in Jazūlite Sufism,” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 12/3-4 (2021): 235–264. Cornell, Vincent. “Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī and the Place of Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in Jazūlite Sufism,” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 12/3-4 (2021): 235–264.

Citation:

Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, “Zawiya,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 25 February 2025.

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Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya is Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha. She holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Art History and Archaeology from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and specializes in the Western Mediterranean, manuscripts, and pilgrimage-related devotional materials. At the MIA, she has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions, including “Hajj: The Journey through Art,” “Qajar Women,” “Imperial Threads,” “A Falcon’s Eye,” and “Splendours of the Atlas.” She also contributed to supervising the reinstallation of MIA’s permanent galleries, which reopened in 2022.