Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo: Omar Makram Mosque: Sheikh Ahmed: Adhan Recitation
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| Description: | Sheikh Ahmed has been a volunteer muezzin at Masgid Omar Makram for 12 years. Here he recites the adhan in one of his many versions; he is also a Quran teacher – Sheikh Makra’a. |
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| Created: | 2011-05-26 14:18 |
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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; Ancient tradition; |
| Abstract: | Video & audio recordings of 6 muezzins reciting the adhan (Muslim call to prayer), with supporting photographs of muezzins and their respective mosques. |
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