Contributors to Wahied's Albums
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Haji Abbas CloeteThe late Haji Abbas Cloete, a well-known teacher in the community and radio presenter on Radio 786, prepared the background material about the history of the riwāyah in the Cape as well as the meaning of the riwāyāt. |
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Park Audio StudiosRafiq 'Babu' Parker of Park Audio Studios, played an important role in recording Wahied's first album and subsequently, the second album as well. His combined background in music and sound engineering, overall experience and insight proved invaluable in producing quality albums. |
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Faeez KannemeyerWahied's younger brother, a former member of the Cape Malaysians, then Raihan 2 and now Īmān. Faeez assisted with the recordings of Salutations and Devotion. |
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Prof. Yusuf da Costa and Prof. Yusef WaghidProf. Yusuf da Costa (formerly of the University of the Western Cape) and Prof. Yusef Waghid of Stellenbosch University, provided editorial assistance by checking the background material of Salutations and correcting the Arabic transliteration. |
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Sh. Talieb BakerTalieb is a former lecturer at the Islamic College of South Africa (ICOSA) in Cape Town, now working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is currently enrolled for a Masters Degree in Religious Studies at the University of Durban Westville (UDW). Talieb specialises in tracing the origin of Muslim religio-cultural practices in Cape Town and broader South Africa. He compiled the information about the history of the Hajāh for the Devotion album. |
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Yunis CaskerYunis Casker is a well known artist in Cape Town, specialising in air brush painting. Yunis was commissioned to do a painting for the Devotion album to depict the history, origin and character of the Ḥājah. |
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Pencil Box StudiosKashief Sydow is the owner of Pencil Box Studios, a graphics design house. Kashief was involved in the design of the sleeves for both Salutations and Devotion. |
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Nurah TapeNurah Tape, the former News Editor of Radio 786, now works in Qatar for Aljazeera TV's English service. Nurah has been generous with her writing and linguistic abilities, editing and redrafting the copy of both Wahied's albums and material on this website. |
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Tohir SolomonsTohir is a web usability developer on the University of the Western Cape's (UWC) KEWL.NextGen project. Tohir designed Wahied's website. He writes a blog at http://www.tohir.co.za |
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