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Belonging to Sufism, the confraternity Hmadcha was Founded in the seventeenth century by Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouch. Proponents of this guild practicing asceticism Individual and collective enliven a ritual, featuring several phases during which the successive invocations of Allah, the Prophet Sidna Mohammed, poems sung and litanies. The final phase of leads to ritual dances and ecstatic trances. The Hmadcha use a large and a small tambourine to Slender cup (Harraz, Taârija), a double drum membrane (T'bal), an oboe (Ghaïta) and a flute (Layra).
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