Reflections on “spiritual nourishment” at the Fes Festival

This weekend, Saturday 13 April, marks the kick-off of the seventh edition of the Fes Festival of Sufi Culture at the Batha Museum (4:00 PM). The programme includes the presentation of the festival's theme: "Spiritual Nourishment (Qût al Qulûb), Sufism and Creativity". This will be followed later in the evening by a concert of Sufi Muwashahat from Syria, featuring Takht Atthourath and Hamam Khayri (8:30 PM)."The spiritual dimension, when it exists, is in no way contradictory to other dimensions of art, culture, thought or society, which it can irrigate and nourish," emphasised Faouzi Skali. For the president of the Fes Festival of Sufi Culture Association, which organises the event, "this is what we wanted to highlight in this seventh edition by showing how these two dimensions, the outer (zâhir) and the inner (bâtin), not only complement each other but also allow us to envisage a new s…