Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo: Masgid Sultan Qansuh Al Ghury: Sheikh Antar: Asr Adhan
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| Description: | Sheikh Antar recites ‘Asr adhan at 4:38pm on August 10, 2010 at the Sultan Qansuh Al Ghury Mosque in El-Hussein (Islamic Cairo), calling the faithful to come and to pray. Sheikh Antar has recited the adhan here for 5 years, as a volunteer. |
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| Created: | 2011-05-26 14:33 |
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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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