City Wide Adhan as heard from Al-Azhar Park on 01-26-2010 at 12:05pm: Dhurh Adhan
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Authors
Kipervaser, Anna
On Look Films
LLC
Publication Date
2010-01-26Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
Other
Type
Audio
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Kipervaser, A., On Look Films, & LLC. (2010). City Wide Adhan as heard from Al-Azhar Park on 01-26-2010 at 12:05pm: Dhurh Adhan [Audio file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237156
Description
Five times a day in the 83 square mile city of Cairo, over 30,000 muezzins call out the adhan, or call to prayer, calling believers to come and to pray. This Dhurh (mid-day) adhan was recorded at Al-Azhar Park in the neighbourhood of Islamic Cairo. The length of the recording is almost 8 minutes, because the muezzins all begin a few seconds apart. The muezzins calling from far away mosques and mosques closest to the park can be heard: please control the volume accordingly.
Abstract
Audio recordings from 10 locations in Cairo representing the city-wide call to
prayer (over 30,000 muezzins reciting each of the 5 times per day) as heard from
each area/neighbourhood, with supporting photographs of the locations and what
is seen from said location.
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Muezzins, Adhan, Cairo, Egypt, Ethnomusicology, Islam, Mosque, Sacred music, Call to prayer, Ancient tradition
Spatial Coverage
Al-Azhar Park, Cairo
Temporal Coverage
January 26th 2010
Sponsorship
Hartley Film Foundation, National Geographic All Roads Film Project, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund
Identifiers
This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237156
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported