City Wide Adhan as heard from between Masgid Sultan Hassan and Masgid Al-Rifaai on 01-27-2010 at 12:07pm: Dhurh Adhan
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Authors
Kipervaser, Anna
On Look Films
LLC
Publication Date
2010-01-27Publisher
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 between Masgid Sultan Hassan and Masgid Al-Rifaai on 01-27-2010 at 12:07pm: Dhurh Adhan [Audio file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237157
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 in the neighbourhood of Sayeda Aisha between two of the biggest and most famous mosques in Cairo. The recording captures the voices of the muezzins of the neighbourhood and beyond, all of whose calls begin a few seconds apart. The muezzins calling from far away mosques and mosques closest to location 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
Between Sultan Hassan Mosque and Al-Rifaai Mosque, Sayeda Aisha, Cairo
Temporal Coverage
January 27th 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/1810/237157
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported