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Raising a Child in a Rural Community: A Study of Rural Folk Beliefs

The rural community is replete with practices that people resort to in response to diseases, crises and the deaths of infants in an effort to protect children...

Omani and Indian Folktales: A Comparative Study

Researchers agree that folktales are ancient, and that they arise spontaneously and represent the spirit of the group. They reflect the group’s...

The Sufi Abu Madyan Shuaib Al-Tilimsani in the Literary and Folk Imagination

Sufism passed through Algeria in five stages. The first was austerity, especially in the first two centuries after Hijrah, while the second stage followed the...

A Word from the Editor: The Poet is Anonymous No More

The people who created folk art usually did so anonymously. For many years, folk songs were passed down and modified by different generations without any...

Studying Al-Arabi Dahu’s Contribution to the Preservation of Algerian Folk Poetry

Folk literature is the cultural and social representation of a people. Folk literature reflects the importance of history, and people share it, enjoy its...

Al-Hakouz in Morocco

To this day, the people of the Bani Zeroual tribe in the far north of Morocco celebrate changes in the seasons with rituals that have distinctive cultural...

Sacred Folk Medicine in Arab Folk Culture: A Socio-Anthropological Study

Although modern medicine has developed considerably, folk medicine has not been eliminated because it and its traditional dimensions still play a role in Arab...

Omani and Indian Folktales: A Comparative Study

Researchers agree that folktales are ancient, and that they arise spontaneously and represent the spirit of the group. They reflect the group’s...

Raising a Child in a Rural Community: A Study of Rural Folk Beliefs

The rural community is replete with practices that people resort to in response to diseases, crises and the deaths of infants in an effort to protect children...

Arabic Folktales: Origin and Fate

This paper focuses on aphorisms in Arab folk culture. The proverb is a literary expression, and the majority of people understand its message. This...

The Art of Libyan Sufi Hadrah Music: Instruments and Rhythms

An ancient lyrical heritage with a rich history, the Sufi Hadrah occupies a prominent position in the countries of the Arab Islamic world, in East Central...

The Sufi Abu Madyan Shuaib Al-Tilimsani in the Literary and Folk Imagination

Sufism passed through Algeria in five stages. The first was austerity, especially in the first two centuries after Hijrah, while the second stage followed the...

The Changing Features of Musical Culture in the Arab World: A Critical Reading of Historical Signs and Their Implications

Most of the information about the history of Arab-Western relations that has been reported by both Arab and Western sources confirms that a relationship was...

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