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Arab folk dances (Arabic: رقص عربي, romanized: raqs ʿarabiyy), also referred to as Oriental dance, Middle-Eastern dance and Eastern dance, are the traditional folk dances of the Arabs in Arab world. Arab dance has many different styles, including the three main types of folklore, classical, and contemporary.
Al-Ghazzali wrote a chapter entitled "Concerning Music and Dancing as Aids to the Religious Life", where he emphasized how the practices of music and dance are beneficial to Muslims, as long as their hearts are pure before engaging in these practices. [11] Opponents find music a heretical innovation or bidah and associate it with infidelity ...
According to Youssef Ibrahim Yazbec, a Lebanese historian, journalist, and politician, [9] the dabke descends from Phoenician dances thousands of years old. [10] According to Palestinian folklorists Abdul-Latif Barghouthi and Awwad Sa'ud al-'Awwad, the dabke jumps may have originated in ancient Canaanite fertility rituals related to agriculture, chasing off evil spirits and protecting young ...
The matachin dance, which dates back hundreds of years, is one that is familiar to many pueblo visitors. The dance is performed in both Hispanic and Native American communities at various times of ...
Christmas is a time of giving and a season to spread holiday cheer. This particular issue arose at a workplace when a Muslim employee decided he would go away on Christmas week, something his ...
Palestinian Dabke folk dance as performed by men. Dabke (Arabic: دبكة), is a folk dance that originates from the Levant. [13] It is popular in Palestinian culture and many other cultures in the Levant, and many troupes perform the dance throughout the world. The Dabke is marked by synchronized jumping, stamping, and movement, similar to tap ...
Muslims around the world are observing the holy month of Ramadan, with worship, charity, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. Volunteers distribute food to people breaking their fast in Pakistan.
Islamic cultures or Muslim cultures refers to the historic cultural practices that developed among the various peoples living in the Muslim world.These practices, while not always religious in nature, are generally influenced by aspects of Islam, particularly due to the religion serving as an effective conduit for the inter-mingling of people from different ethnic/national backgrounds in a way ...