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Islamic funeral culture
SALVOVÁ, Alena
The paper deals with Islamic funeral culture in normative Islam and in the Czech Republic. The first half of the paper describes the actions, traditions and customs associated with funeral culture. The text follows natural time line, then palliative care, dying, death, and after a brief mention of the afterlife. As well as cleansing ritual, prayer for the dead, burial, mourning and grave appearance in nominative Islam. The second half of the text is devoted to minority Muslims and their organizations in the Czech Republic, burying Muslims in our country and mainly describes and compares the three Muslim cemeteries in Praha, Brno and Třebíč. Finally, in the paper I describe and explain the problems that Muslims have in connection with burials in the Czech Republic, and points to possible solutions.
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