Ramadan : a fast of faith

Author(s)

• McGee, Ra'up
• Harvey, Erin
• Kusumah, Bella
• Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Bibliographic Information

Ramadan : a fast of faith

Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2007

Videorecording（Videodisc）

Other Title

ジャワとスマトラのラマダン

Note

Other title from viewer's memo

Narrator: Bella Kusumah

Credits: Producer, writer, and director, Ra'up McGee; director of photography, Erin Harvey

Copyright date on title frames: 1997, Next Week Filmworks/IA Entertainment

DVD

Summary: Tells the story of the month-long Muslim fast of Ramadan as practiced in Java and Sumatra. Describes the activities of Ramadan from the ritual purification that precedes the observance to the festival of Id-al-Fitr that ends it. Also discusses sahur (or suhoor, the pre-dawn meal during Ramadan), chanting the Koran, the traditional return to one's family, and the Nights of Power

Details

• NCID: BB05481971
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Princeton, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: 1 videodisc (52 min.)
• Size: 12 cm.
• Attached Material: 1 viewer's memo (1 folded leaf ; 19 cm.)
• Classification:
  • LCC : BP186.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ramadan
  • LCSH : Fasting -- Religious aspects -- Islam
  • LCSH : Fasts and feasts -- Indonesia -- Islam