Members of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order often "stamp the earth with the name of God" (Werbner, 1996), meaning they sacralize, through the performance of salat (prayer), otherwise secular spaces. In this case, the space is a half-empty parking lot on highway E-5 from Sevilla to Madrid. These images were taken by Samuel Tettner in 2018 as part of an ethnographic accompaniment of Spanish Sufi murids (In Arabic, ‘one who seeks’, initiates into the Sufi path) following the sheikh, or master, in his second visit to Spain from his habitual home in Northern Cyprus.
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© Samuel Tettner, 2018
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© Samuel Tettner, 2018
Samuel Tettner is a PhD Researcher at the Granada Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. Find out more about Samuel's work at http://tettner.com. 
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