Fes Festival - Spiritual but funky

Weds I'm sitting on the roof of Ibrahim Tijani's house in the ancient Fes Medina, there's an almost full moon and the muezzin is blasting out a distorted Allar Akbar, God Is Great. Ibrahim is a leading local Sufi, head of the International division of the Tijiani, founded by his forebear Ahmed al-Tijani who died in 1815, and whose shrine is one of the most visited in Fes. They have millions of followers throughout the world - notably in Senegal - the singer Youssou N'Dour is a devot...

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