The term 'Al Manga' would be synonymous with 'Dukkana', a masonary bench, found in Saints Shrines (Zawiya) or in hammams and used for sitting or resting. When speaking of 'Jalsat al manga' (Manga session), the followers of the Issawiya brotherhood refer to the session of chanting called Mjarrad. The Issawiyya brotherhood is known for its litanies which lead to rites of trance, where the disciple becomes insensitive to pain. In the tradition of Tunis and its surroundings, the litanies of the Issawiyya begin with a purely vocal section, before shifting to 'amal, a section accompanied by percussion instruments, and then moving on to dance and trance rites. It is the first part of the litanies that took the name of 'Mjarrad', literally 'stripped of musical instruments'. The schanting is then accompanied only by the clapping of hands, reproducing a single , five beats rhythmic cycle.

Created in 1997 by the initiative of Pastor Frédéric Setodzo and his colleague Albert Luther, the group of young people from the Protestant parish of Hautepierre presents a veritable challenge. Hautepierre (in the suburb of Strasbourg, in Alsace), an area that is notorious for violence, young people there are always reduced to a caricature which fails to represent the richness of their potentials. The two founders chose to make it their mission to unite these young people in order to set a constructive entertainment in cooperation with them,

Lutfi Bouchnak considers all singing to be spiritual provided that it is elevated to the state of exaltation and that it brings the listener beyond the material world and lead him/ her to a wider horizon of spirituality on different topics and musical forms. So, when he sings: We sing to water the dream of the youth and to dip in love the bread of the poor, Nothing remains after the last spring, But the roses of songs…This is spirituality and when he says in one of his songs: Time betrayed me, hit me, hurt me,

Ibn Arabi

Founded in 1983 by the french virtuoso of Arabzither (qânûn) Julien Jâlal Eddine Weiss, resident in Aleppo (capital of northernSyria and a stopping place on the famousSilk Road) iscurrentlyratedamong the best formations devoted to classicalArab music, owing to the musical qualitiesdisplayed by its performers, and to the high standard of itswork, steeped in the various musical traditions of the near and middle East. TakhtSharqi (traditional oriental ensemble),

Following an interruption imposed by the restoration works carried out at the Ennejma Ezzahra Palace, the Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music resumes its musical activity, by organizing, during the second half of the month of Ramadan , a series of concerts entitled "Layali Ennejma Ezzahra » (Nights of Ennejma Ezzahra) .The program includes six evenings , with a clear emphasis on spiritual music.