City Wide Adhan as heard from between Masgid Sultan Hassan and Masgid Al-Rifaai on 01-27-2010 at 12:07pm: Dhurh Adhan

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.

Subjects

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