{"id":2005,"date":"2014-04-21T22:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2014-04-29T22:19:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:19:02","slug":"ulek-suatu-ceritera-mistik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"Ulek: Suatu Ceritera Mistik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Alifah Zainuddin, BENL<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than 500 students and staff from IIUM and guests from other varsities filled the Main Auditorium earlier this week for the sold-out staging of Ulek: Suatu Ciretera Mistik.<\/p>\n<p>The play, an adaptation of the popular local Ulek Mayang tradition found in Terengganu, was the brainchild of IIUM Poetry Club, in collaboration with Castaways Production House.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder of Castaways Production House, Siti Sazarin Pet, said that the tradition was selected to promote the beauty of Malay culture whose traditions are rich with dances and poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Ulek Mayang is an ancient tale about a sea-princess who fell in love with a fisherman.<\/p>\n<p>The princess abducts the fisherman&#8217;s soul, leaving his body unconscious. His friends beseeched a local bomoh to heal him. When the bomoh conducted the healing ritual to bring the fisherman&#8217;s soul back, the princess appeared and responded by calling on five of her sisters to her aid.<\/p>\n<p>The battle between the bomoh and the six princesses continued until the seventh and the eldest princess appeared and put an end to it.<\/p>\n<p>The folklore dates back to the fifteenth century during a time when Islamic revival movements were at its early stages in Tanah Melayu. The battle between Islam and age-old cultural practices and beliefs prevailed during that time.<\/p>\n<p>Sazarin said that the play acted as a social critique on the Malay faith where, despite the establishment of Islam, superstitious beliefs and bomoh practices are still rampant in todays modern society.<\/p>\n<p>Sazarin went on further to explain that the play called for us, as a society, to ponder upon our faith.<\/p>\n<p>Also in attendance at the event were representatives from IIUMs International Islamic Cultural Centre (CITRA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alifah Zainuddin, BENL More than 500 students and staff from IIUM and guests from other varsities filled the Main Auditorium earlier this week for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UlekMayang04.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}