Talk:Nabi Musa

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[edit] Start-up

This is pretty rough to start with, and is mainly a matter of discharging long-accumulated notes into sections. Once the bulk of the material has been dumped, (others are welcome with their ballast), the idea would be to cut and prune it into thematic divisions, and then revise it stylistically. Finally wikify.Nishidani (talk) 15:33, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Structure

Tiamat has organized the lead perfectly. I suggest the following structure is what we should aim at.

(1) Lead, defining the term (Done!)
(2) History
(3) The festival's structure
(a) Assembly and departure from Jerusalem, district represented (Hebron and Nablus has specific contingents, unless I misrecall)
(b) The journey to Nabi Musa
(c) The nature of the festival on site (3 days or five days?). Religious organisation, vows, feasting etc.
(d) The return to Jerusalem through the Jaffa gate(?) and dispersal. (4) The development of it as a symbol of Palestinian identity and nationalism.
(5)Incidental material, and the Moses' stone.

If one can gather it, details on costume etc., and folkloric beliefs associated with it.Nishidani (talk) 17:46, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Nishidani. Good suggestions on how to proceed with the article and then the lead's further expansion. I'll try to do my part.

I wanted to ask you though about this sentence: "Once their vows were taken, or vows that had been taken in the preceding year's procession, were offered to the festival."

Do you know what this is meant to say? I can't quite figure it out.

Thanks and great work! Tiamut^talk 03:39, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

My computer's connection down again, and am writing from my nephew's. You've done the page honour with this substance and wififying fine-tuning. The sentence is terrible. Apologies. The source mentioned that vows were offered, or, if made in the previous years, were offered. Now the precise nature of this is obscure (how do you reoffer a vow? I think 're-confirmed' was meant'. I put it in to alert others to a crux requiring explanation. I.e. as a trace to be expanded when we have more knowledge of the exact anthropological structure of the ritual, which involved in this instance vow taking, and renewel. By the way there is a small pamphlet put out by the Jericho office of the PNA, based on five articles written for Al-Quds in 1997, which apparently explains the makam and rituals in some detail (apart from the book published in Amman). I hope to be back more comfortably when the connection is reestablished with the server. I have quite a bit of extra stuff, but haven't had time to slip it in, because of other preparatory work on pages. Cheers and thanks once moreNishidani (talk) 18:45, 7 February 2008 (UTC)