{"id":12197,"date":"2022-11-10T08:12:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=12197"},"modified":"2022-11-10T23:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T04:38:26","slug":"the-sound-arts-a-spiritual-practice-in-islam-with-detroit-duo-tazeen-lufuki-nov-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2022\/11\/10\/the-sound-arts-a-spiritual-practice-in-islam-with-detroit-duo-tazeen-lufuki-nov-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound Arts: A Spiritual Practice in Islam with Detroit duo Tazeen &amp; LuFuki, Nov. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this session with Detroit Mercy&#8217;s Islamic Studies Program, Detroit-based artists, educators and community organizers Tazeen and LuFuki share some of their original music compositions followed by a discussion on how art can and has been used as a spiritual practice in Islam for generations.<\/p>\n<p>Tazeen and LuFuki are a dynamic musical duo from Detroit that believe music is a sacred art form that can be used for storytelling, healing, solidarity, freedom and social action. Guitarist, vocalist and flutist Tazeen blends her soulful voice with afro-indo sounds, while guitarist and composer LuFuki weaves jazz, funk, rock and classical sounds through his melodies and solos.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they form an afro-spirit sound collective, LuFuki and Divine Providence, and have released four albums.<\/p>\n<p>They are co-directors for the Detroit chapter of Gathering All Muslim Artists (GAMA) and are the founders of the Sanctuary of Sound, an intimate community space that pairs meditation and music as a spiritual practice and experience.<\/p>\n<p>The event is sponsored by the Islamic Studies Program and co-sponsored with the Department of Religious Studies, the African American Studies Program, the Department of Performing Arts, and the Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts &amp; Education.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12198\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/Nov-11-event-poster-Islamic-Studies.jpeg?resize=881%2C1139&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A graphic featuring two people playing instruments. Text reads 'The Sound Arts: A Spiritual Practice in Islam, Tazeen &amp; Lufuki, Friday, Nov. 11 at 5 p.m., St. Ignatius Chapel, Commerce &amp; Finance Building, In this session Detroit-based artists, educators, and community organizers Tazeen and LuFuki share some of their original compositions followed by a discussion on how art can and has been used as a spiritual practice in Islam for generations, Presenter: Islamic Studies Program, Co-Sponsors: Office of the Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Education, Department of Performing Arts, African American Studies Program, Department of Religious Studies.'\" width=\"881\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/Nov-11-event-poster-Islamic-Studies-scaled.jpeg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/Nov-11-event-poster-Islamic-Studies-scaled.jpeg?resize=791%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/Nov-11-event-poster-Islamic-Studies-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/Nov-11-event-poster-Islamic-Studies-scaled.jpeg?resize=1187%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/Nov-11-event-poster-Islamic-Studies-scaled.jpeg?resize=1583%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/Nov-11-event-poster-Islamic-Studies-scaled.jpeg?resize=425%2C550&amp;ssl=1 425w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/Nov-11-event-poster-Islamic-Studies-scaled.jpeg?w=1978&amp;ssl=1 1978w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this session with Detroit Mercy&#8217;s Islamic Studies Program, Detroit-based artists, educators and community organizers Tazeen and LuFuki share some of their original music compositions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":12198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[94,2309,3615,5384,197,5155,4991,5756],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/Nov-11-event-poster-Islamic-Studies-scaled.jpeg?fit=1978%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-3aJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12202,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197\/revisions\/12202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}