A Mesquita da Luz: o Islã sunita no Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Mamedes, Janoí Joaquim
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25616
• topic: Islamismo; Sunitas; Mesquita da Luz; Sociedade Beneficente Muçulmana do Rio de Janeiro; Islam; Sunni; Mosque of Light; Muslim Beneficent Society of Rio de Janeiro; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

The research approaches the Mosque of light, the physical space were gathers the beneficent society Muslim of Rio de Janeiro (SBMRJ), movement of Sunni Islam. The Work aims to identify the hatcher of SBMRJ and what contributed to the formation of their identity. Part of the historical about renaissance of Islam, the main schisms, mystique, holy book, five pillars: The testimony, daily prayers, alms, fasting during the Ramadan s month and pilgrimage to Mecca. Islam and the six faith s pillars: Faith in just one God, faith in angels, faith in holy books, faith in predestination, faith in resurrection and in dooms day. The arrival of Islam to Brazil, highlighting the African Islam that arrived with slaves brought from Africa and the Islam of immigrants originating from the Middle East. This research also approaches the Rio de Janeiro s Muslim Beneficent Society history, the Mosque abandoned of Jacarepaguá and its change to current address. Also approaches the construction of identify from groups identified like Arabs and its descendants, African, and Brazilian reversed. The dynamic of Mosque is show highlighting the main activities like prayers on Friday, department education, female department and the institution s social department. The work conducts to the following conclusion: The SBMRJ contributes to the creation of a National Islam, with a Koranic Orthodoxy and a Brazilian Orthopraxis.