Ahmed Ould Sidi-Nouakchott

Under the shadow of a shack built for the purpose of teaching children in a popular neighborhood in the capital, Nouakchott, Ahmedou Ould Sidi Aley takes his place among a number of his peers as they prepare to write a new Quranic lesson before midday. Children's time and some of them are studying in the Qur'anic "parallels".

Waking up at dawn
The child's family keeps him awakened before the morning prayer. He takes a wooden plaque ready to write Qur'aan lessons. His companions participate in reading the plates in the light of the lamps that the teacher has built to teach the children to read, write and memorize the Qur'an.

Ould Sidi Aley says that many children precede him before the morning prayer, and that the teacher also wakes up before everyone else to prepare the hut, lighting the lamps and instructing the children to start reading the plates and focusing on the lessons so that they can memorize them in a way that allows them to write a new lesson the next day.

The process of teaching begins before the morning prayer and continues until 8 or 9 am Children return to their parents to eat breakfast and then begin to come back to the teacher to write the daily lesson, and then start reading until 11 o'clock, and return the ball after noon and before noon go back to their homes to go back to the study The night before the Maghrib prayer, they conclude their day with the forbidden teaching spread widely there.

Summer Holiday
The professor of "prohibition of conquest" Net Ould Issa Najah God that the barriers to teaching the Koran is witnessing a great recovery in the summer vacation because of the increasing demand by families wishing to teach their children the Koran, noting that the ban has seen a lot of turnout after the closure of regular schools since the end of May Last May, and the number of children studying there has increased significantly.

Sheikh Al-Safi Ould Issa Najah Allah (Al Jazeera)

Ould Issa Najahallah says memorizing Qur'aan is a priority for many in Mauritania, which has led some families to combine children for regular school and Koran study.

He stressed that there are other families do not have the opportunity to study their children the Koran because of the pressures of regular study, and take advantage of the summer vacation to teach them in the courts scattered across the country.

It has been established for about seven years in a popular neighborhood in the capital Nouakchott - as the sheikh says - and since then he is studying the neighborhood's children, where the opposition is witnessing a great recovery at the end of the school year, because most children can not combine formal and observational education. When the few keep their combination through a certain timetable during which teaching in the Mahalla at irregular times.

Immigration to the courts
Mahazer is also a long-time student in the field of Shari'a and Linguistic Sciences.

According to Mohamed Vall Ould Sid Amhamed, a student of the forensic sciences and linguistics, the demand for teaching in the courts is increasing dramatically during the summer holidays, where many university and secondary youth become a kiss after the closing of regular schools and universities.

The student adds that the prohibited teaching is still a large demand despite the spread of formal education, where is considered a teacher or teaching in the country, and can not any family to be absent from the boys for any reason, especially the summer vacation.

Imitation tradition refuses to extinction
It is considered a traditional method of education that has spread widely throughout the country, where universities and mobile schools study the Koran and various Islamic and Arab sciences, and have maintained their status and scientific value despite the spread of modern formal education.

In the view of the professor of the "prohibition of conquest" that the parades still retain the same purpose for which he was founded, which is the teaching of Islamic and Arab sciences, and study in the parades in the open, and at night, the children and students fire wood for readers of wood panels in the light of fire.

Sheikh Ould Issa Najahallah pointed out that some of the parallels at the moment built buildings to teach students, others became taught in the huts, and the teaching in some villages and clubs in the tents after it was under the trees or in the open.