THE « HOMU » PROJECT

		Basically, the “HOMU” project was a proposal for a flyer for the show of the Mtendeni troupe (Zanzibar) in Paris (2005), based on my former experiences in the Comoros in the late 1990’s.     Then the exercise turned  to a more extensive study of the equivalent ritual among every branches of the Rifaiyyah and Qadiriyyah orders all over the indian ocean. The study definitely suffers the disruption of the rifa’i silsila between the middle eastern main orders and today’s taifa in the swahili world. Having said that, this inventory crossmatches rituals through three main guidelines:  row choreographies, sufi rituals of mortification and the Maulidi as a lyrical genre. Every findings strengthen further comparisons between ritualistic avatars in Zanzibar & West Java/Sumatra.
	Knowing that, these row dances clearly originated from the Bedouin world, and variants of their choregraphies have been extensively described by Margareth KARTOMI – in the context of the “middle-eastern” tari drum dances in the malaysian world.  This latter work are a possible key to the Swahili choreographies and they are reported so. Then, later addings from Indonesia (2010) and the Persian Gulf (2015) caused a major redesign of the paper.
	An extensive study of the Maulidi / Moulidi in the Comorian & Swahili world. Sister-genres are inventoried then in the Maldives, western India, Syria, Iraq, Jawa, Banda sea.
	Maulidi_ya_homu.pdf		http://inthegapbetween.free.fr/pierre/report-derviches/Maulidi_Ya_Homu.pdf	(in french)

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