Zawiya

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Zawiya

Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya

Related Terms:

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

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References:

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.

Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, a specialist of manuscripts and pilgrimage-related devotional materials in the Islamic world, is Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha, Qatar. She completed her Ph.D. in Islamic Art History and Archaeology at the Pantheon Sorbonne University in Paris in 2012 and taught Islamic art for four years at the Pantheon Sorbonne and INALCO. At the MIA, she led the curatorial team during the reinstallation of the museum’s permanent galleries (2015-2022) and has curated or co-curated eleven temporary exhibitions, including Hajj – The Journey through Art (2013) in collaboration with the British Museum, Building Our Collection: Ceramics of Al-Andalus (2014), Qajar Women (2015), Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India (2017), Baghdad: Eye’s Delight (2022), and Splendours of the Atlas (2024).