City Wide Adhan as heard from the top of Cairo Tower on 01-25-2010 at 3:06pm: Asr Adhan
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Authors
Kipervaser, Anna
On Look Films
LLC
Publication Date
2010-01-25Publisher
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 the top of Cairo Tower on 01-25-2010 at 3:06pm: Asr Adhan [Audio file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237158
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 ‘Asr (afternoon) adhan was recorded at the top of the Cairo Tower – the tallest point in Egypt at 187 m (614 ft) - in the neighbourhood of Zamalek. The recording captures the voices of the muezzins of Cairo as they echo below, all of whose calls begin a few seconds apart from one another. 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
Atop Cairo Tower, Zamalek, Cairo
Temporal Coverage
January 25th 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/1810/237158
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported