Omar Makram Mosque: Sheikh Ahmed: 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 Ahmed has been a volunteer muezzin at Masgid Omar Makram for 12 years. Here he recites the adhan in one of his many versions; he is also a Quran teacher – Sheikh Makra’a.
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