From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song ‘Imam Hüsäynim’

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• Glossary
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• ashiq—‘lover’, a person who devotes his or her life to God, sometimes in the form of a mendicant beggar and singer
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• däm zikiri—breath dhikr
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• dap—frame drum
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• dastan—sung epic
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• dastanchi—epic singer
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• dhikr (zikir)—‘remembrance’, the ritual recitation of God’s names
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• dutar—two-stringed long-necked plucked lute
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• hälqä—‘circle’, a round of sung poetry, dhikr and movements
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• hälqä-sohbät—‘gathering in a circle and talking’, a Sufi ritual that involves chanting Central Asian Sufi poetry, dhikr, and dance
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• hikmät—‘pieces of wisdom’, verses attributed to Ahmad Yasawi
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• imam—prayer leader
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• ishan—leader of a Sufi brotherhood
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• jähri—loud
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• khufi—silent
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• maddāḥ (mäddah)—religious storyteller
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• mäshräp—devotional songs based on the poetry of Shah Mashrab; Sufi gathering of singing mäshräp songs, and more secular forms of gatherings
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• mazar—tomb and shrine
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• munajat—supplicatory songs
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• muqam—free-meter songs based on Central Asian Sufi poetry; suites based on the Sufi muqam tradition
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• naglä—a spoken form of dastan performance without instrumental accompaniment
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• näzmä—a sung form of dastan performance with instrumental accompaniment
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• rawap—shorter lute with sympathetic strings
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• samāʿ—audition
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• sapayi—percussion sticks
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• tämbur—five-stringed long-necked plucked lute
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