'''T'heydinn or T'heydinne' (, variously also called Al Batt Likbir and Al Rasm'') is a Moorish epic ensemble of Mauritania. It is an important literary and artistic manifestation of the Hassaniya language and was, in 2011, added to the UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
'''T'heydinn or T'heydinne' (, variously also called Al Batt Likbir and Al Rasm'') is a Moorish epic ensemble of Mauritania. It is an important literary and artistic manifestation of the Hassaniya language and was, in 2011, added to the UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
== Origins == The T’heydinn dates back to the 17th century and contains dozens of poems that praise the exploits of Moorish emirs and sultans and narrates events and traditions that trace the social, cultural and historical evolution of the Moors. The ''T'heydinn talk of the intermingling of the two main elements of Moorish society today, the Beni Hassan, the descendants of the Beni Hilal who migrated from the Arabian Peninsula, and the Sanhaja, the ancient Berber inhabitants of the Maghreb. It is performed by griots (or iggawen in Hassaniya) who are singers who have acquired their art by directly imitating the musical talents of their ancestors.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).