Masgid Sultan Qansuh Al Ghury: Sheikh Antar: Asr Adhan
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Kipervaser, Anna
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On Look Films
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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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.
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Muezzin, Adhan, Cairo, Egypt, Ethnomusicology, Islam, Mosque, Sacred music, Call to prayer, Ancient tradition
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Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
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Hartley Film Foundation, National Geographic All Roads Film Project, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund