Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo: Masgid Sultan Hassan: Sheikh Said: Adhan Recitation

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Description: Sheikh Said demonstrates the adhan on February 1, 2010 at the great Sultan Hassan Mosque in Sayeda Aisha. He has been a muezzin here for 8 years.
 
Created: 2011-05-26 14:22
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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