Masgid Sultan Hassan: Sheikh Said: Adhan Recitation
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Kipervaser, Anna
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LLC
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 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.
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