Contains 35 selections, primarily from the poetry of al-Shushtari, in a nonclassical dialectal form of Arabic.

The recitation of these verses, which are still sung by the Sufi brotherhoods of North Africa, includes the call to prayer (No. 1) in a remarkable choral intertwining of voices, plus three passages from the Qur'an (Nos. 2-3, 35).

The recording in the Andalusian style was made by Moroccan musicians under the direction of a Sufi shaykh.

Shushtari was born in Shushtar, near Guadix (Spain) around year 1203, and died in Egypt the sixteen of October of 1269. His first studies sufies made them with lbn Suraqa, in their adolescente began in the practices of the sufies.

He went to Morocco where he established in Rabat, but mainly resided in Meknés, where already he was recognized like a teacher with an eccentric character.

In a zéjel it says of itself:

An old poor man by territories of Meknés in the middle of the zocos sings:

What people concerns to me!

And what I concern to people!

In 1253 he knew in Mecca who would be his true and definitive teacher, lbn Sab’in al-Mursi, he initiated him in the Sab’inia.

When lbn Sab’in died, Shustari became teacher of the disciples of ibn Sab’in and went with them to Egypt, where he died in 1.269.

His poems soon were sung, and becoming to comprise of the practices of Sama.

In Magreb and Syria they are used in the meetings of the shadzilies sufies.

The file includes the covers.

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