Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo: Masgid Sultan Abu el-Eala: Sheikh Shaaban: Asr Adhan
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| Description: | Sheikh Said demonstrates the ‘Asr adhan at 3:36pm on August 15, 2010 at Sultan Abu el-Eala Mosque in Boulaq Abu el-Eala. He has been a muezzin here for almost one year; he and his whole family moved here from his village for this job. |
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| Created: | 2011-05-26 14:38 |
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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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