Recitation Experience and the Use of Sound in the Ritual and Congregation of Taiwan’s Muslim Communities
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Hsu, Yu-Chun
DOI
en-US
Abstract
The Taiwan’s Muslim community is the focus of this paper. Principal field-data are composed of information collected from interviews conducted in six mosques over the past four years. What ideas of sound are found in current Islamic rituals in Taiwan? It addresses the question of how Taiwan Muslims use sound to enhance performance of rituals, and explores the particular functions of religious sound in Taiwanese Islam. What is the relationship between Taiwan’s politics, society and Muslims’ sound ideas? Do the Taiwan Muslims, who were born in different places, have varied sound practices and different reciting experience?
I analyzed Islamic ritual sound from the perspectives of audible sounds and non-verbal movements. Verbal sounds include "niyya"(establishing intention, 舉意), adhán (call to prayer), recitation, answering, and praying in the rites. Non-verbal movements include sitting still (靜坐), silent prayer (默禱)and body language during the religious service. Together, they complete the Islamic rites. I took the Friday prayer of Longgang Mosque (龍岡清真寺) in Zhongli (中壢) as an example to analyze the basic characteristics of reciting intonation, the relationship between the volumes, the ranges of the intonation of the recitation, the process of ritual and the actions of the worshippers. Besides, I tried to discover the “sound idea” within the context of Taiwanese Islam” and the diversified learning experiences of followers when it comes to reciting the Qur’án.
Subjects
可蘭經
喚拜(叫拜)
宗教
儀式
聆聽
吟誦
肢體語言
音聲概念
主麻禮拜
田野調查
Taiwanese Islam
Taiwan Muslim
Reciting
Listening
Qur’257
n
Religion
Call to Prayer
Jum‘a Prayer
Sound Idea
Body Movements
Field work
Type
other
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