to comply. In addition, Al-Azhar issued a fatwa replacing the common funeral prayer ( salat al-janazah ) with the exceptional salat al-gha´ib . This regulation proved more difficult for people to accept as Salat al-Janazah is an obligatory prayer
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Introduction
Religious Rituals’ Reflection of Current Social Conditions in the Middle East
Ingvild Flaskerud
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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The Politics of Islamic Death Rituals in the COVID-19 Era
The Case of Egypt
Nadeem Ahmed Moonakal and Matthew Ryan Sparks
schools of thought, these mandates, practices and restrictions concerning death and burial remain similar ( Gatrad 1994 ). Essentially, Islamic burial practices can be divided into washing the body ( ghusl ), shrouding the body with kafan , funeral prayer
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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Sacred Necroresistance in India-Administered Kashmir
Umer Jan
organised funeral prayers, in absentia, for insurgents and civilians. Thereafter, the students also shouted slogans against the Indian state and in favour of Kashmir's azadi (‘freedom’), as they continued rallying within the campus and, during some