{"id":20846,"date":"2016-09-11T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=20846"},"modified":"2020-09-26T22:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T20:19:39","slug":"zikr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/zikr\/","title":{"rendered":"Zikr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">The <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-37191980\">BBC recently reported on<\/a> the &#8220;<span class=\"s1\" style=\"user-select: auto;\">Islamic Sufi prayer ceremony known as <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Zikr<\/strong>&#8220;. \u00a0It is pretty popular in the Caucasus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">Years ago I remember seeing a brief news spot on <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramzan_Kadyrov\">Ramzan Kadyrov<\/a>, the strongman ruler of Chechnya. He was doing what I now realize is the Zikr dance. At the time I was absolutely intrigued, and I still am.There is something fascinating about this. Must be the raver in me.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OdBJu2lo8y0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">There is an entire <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCSNLY0GswFCX0Lj6Iw4SI3w\">Youtube channel<\/a> devoted to Zikr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\">And because it is the internet, there is a <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=48laJC8wYl4\">pisstake<\/a> (this dance set to rave music, which highlights just how similar dance\/trance and these spiritual practices are to each other).<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\"><a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/24\/world\/europe\/24grozny.html?_r=1\">A Whirling Sufi Revival With Unclear Implications <\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0NY Times, 2006<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\"><a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/article\/1079237.html\">Chechnya: Kadyrov Uses &#8216;Folk Islam&#8217; For Political Gain<\/a> &#8211; Radio Free Europe, 2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"user-select: auto;\"><a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestown.org\/single\/?no_cache=1&amp;tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=3487#.V9UuB6Mr3Uo\">Kadyrov Turns to Zikrism to Legitimize His Rule<\/a> &#8211; The Jamestome Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC recently reported on the &#8220;Islamic Sufi prayer ceremony known as Zikr&#8220;. \u00a0It is pretty popular in the Caucasus.\u00a0 Years ago I remember seeing a brief news spot on Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman ruler of Chechnya. He was doing what I now realize is the Zikr dance. At the time I was absolutely intrigued, &#8230; <a title=\"Zikr\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/zikr\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Zikr\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,11,246,19],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-20846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-miscellaneous","category-music","category-sociology-social-sciences","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/srY0k-zikr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}