Customs and Traditions as Folklorism

Quran and traditions on purgatory

Purgatory life of man and the stages following it have always occupied human mind. Some verses of Quran such as Al-muminun 100-101, Al-Imran 169-170, Ya-Sin 26-27, Al-Mu`min 11 and 46, Al-Munafiqun 10 and An-Nahl 32 clearly describe purgatory world and its properties. As is understood everlasting life of martyrs of holy wars and their rewards has been regarded as a proof for purgatory and its g...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

Customs and Desirable after Childbirth, in Islam

  Children are a precious gift from God, and the blessing of a child is a special time in a person's life. All cultures and religious traditions have certain ways of welcoming a newborn child into the community; also, each culture and religion has its own customs and traditions for the birth of a child. During and after the birth of a Muslim child, there are certain rituals the mother and fathe...

Traditions and True Successors

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Sporting Traditions

This book represents a delightful collection of essays on Welsh sport, in particular the Welsh sport of rugby union football and its place in Welsh society. Gareth Williams has provided sports historians with some of the best accounts of sport in the Principality over the years and 1905 And All That is no exception. Avid readers of sports history will recognise some of the articles, however, si...