Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo: Masgid Mahmoudeya: Sheikh Hamed: Fajr Adhan
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| Description: | Sheikh Hamed recites the Fajr adhan at 3:53am on August 19, 2010 at Mahmoudeya Mosque in Sayeda Aisha, calling the faithful to come and to pray. He has been a muezzin here for 20 years. |
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| Created: | 2011-05-26 14:42 |
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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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