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Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

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Something Understood: Shrines

Embracing the Classical

12/03/2017

Shrines

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Shrines

Mark Tully considers the appeal of shrines and visits a popular Sufi shrine in Delhi.

Mark Tully discusses the increasing popularity of less formal worship at shrines. He visits one of the holiest Sufi shrines in Delhi with historian and Sufi devotee Sadia Delvi.

Centred around a visit to his local Sufi shrine in Delhi, Mark Tully considers the apparently increasing popularity of shrines in many cultures. 

He talks to journalist and Sufi devotee Sadia Delvi at the holy shrine at Nizamuddin Auliya, which is the mausoleum of India's most famous Sufi saint. The Qawwals sing, offerings are made and food is shared as they discuss the pluralism of worship in such places. 

Mark also introduces readings by poets Robert Lowell and Edmund Blunden, and by journalist Jon Lichfiled, along with music from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Matthew Halsall and David Bowie.

The readers are Emily Raymond, Francis Cadder and Jasper Britton.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

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