Latest news
Most popular
Main menu
News
History
Structure
Personalia
Events
Manuscripts
Publications
IOM Journals
PhD Program
Videos (rus)
Buy books (rus)
Library (rus)
IOM (rus)
What's most interesting for you?

  Print

Gerasimov I. V. Sacred gifts and symbols in Sudan brotherhoods (the Qadiriyya brotherhood in the town of al-Aylafun) // Seminar: Heraldry as an auxiliary historical discipline. St. Petersburg: The state Hermitage museum, 2017. P. 17—23.


In February 2015 the participants of the field trip to the Republic of Sudan visited one of the country’s oldest spiritual centres, the town of al-Aylafun (‘al-‘īlafūn) located on the east bank of the Blue Nile about thirty kilometres south-east of Khartoum. The road leading south features a traffic sign pointing the direction of al-Aylafun which names the holy men whose qubbas are located in al-Aylafun...

PDF-files

Keywords


Islam in Sudan
sufism

IOM's page contains
Publications714
Monographs333
Papers377
b_ernshtedt_1986.jpg
ar_iakerson_2005.jpg
b_ioannesyan_1999.jpg
b_kychanov_2004.jpg
Random news: Announcements

A.V. Mesheznikov has submitted his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Sciences in History titled “Sanskrit manuscripts as sources on the history of Buddhism in Khotan in I–IX centuries” to the Department of Manuscripts and Documents.

Read more...


Programming© N.Shchupak; Design© M.Romanov