Maulidi Ya Hom is a religious performance stemming from Muslim Sufi orders, here held in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It was very often associated with mortification practices which are nowadays abandoned. On the point of disappearing, Maulidi Ya Hom continued to survive in the countryside.

Director: Jean-Claude PENRAD (Centre d'Etudes africaines, URA EHESS et CNRS, Paris)
Author: Jean-Claude PENRAD (Centre d'Etudes africaines, URA EHESS et CNRS, Paris)

Title: Maulidi ya Hom
Sub-title : Ritual and performance in Zanzibar
Collection title : Carnets de recherche
Date of production : 1997
Country of production : France
Duration: 00:14:00
Sound: Sound
Public : Specialised audience
Original Support : Hi8
Delivery support : DVD, Beta SP, DV Cam

Version : French, English, Swahili
Distribution (CNRS Images): Lending, Sale (private use), Sale (institutions use)

Production : Producer : CNRS AV

Audiovisual process : Real shots. Use of texts (in introduction and during the film).
Live sound. Music and song (in Arabic and Kiswahili).
Discipline : Ethnology Africa

Keyword : Keywords : Islam ; Ritual dance ; Art religion relation ; Religious community
Places : Tanzania
Date of ceation : 14/01/1997

Source:
http://videotheque.cnrs.fr/index.php?urlaction=doc&id_doc=804&rang=1