Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo: City Wide Adhan as heard from near Masgid Sheikh Abdullah on 08-23-2009 at 3:34pm: ‘Asr Adhan
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| Description: | Five times a day in the 83 square mile city of Cairo, over 30,000 muezzins call out the adhan, or call to prayer, calling believers to come and to pray. This ‘Asr (afternoon) adhan was recorded near the Sheikh Abdullah Mosque in the neighbourhood of Gamaliya in Islamic Cairo. The recording captures the voices of the muezzins of Cairo, all of whose calls begin a few seconds apart from one another. The muezzins calling from far away mosques and mosques closest to location can be heard. |
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| Created: | 2011-05-23 12:37 |
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| Collection: | World Oral Literature Project Collections |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC |
| Language: | ara (Arabic) |
| Keywords: | Oral Literature; Oral Tradition; Linguistic Anthropology; Muezzin; Adhan; Cairo; Egypt; Ethnomusicology; Islam; Mosque; Sacred music; Call to prayer; |
| Abstract: | Audio recordings from 10 locations in Cairo representing the city-wide call to prayer (over 30,000 muezzins reciting each of the 5 times per day) as heard from each area/neighbourhood, with supporting photographs of the locations and what is seen from said location. |
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