City Wide Adhan as heard from near Masgid Sheikh Abdullah on 08-08-2010 at 1:02pm: Dhurh Adhan
Authors
Kipervaser, Anna
On Look Films
LLC
Publication Date
2010-08-08Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
Other
Type
Audio
Metadata
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Kipervaser, A., On Look Films, & LLC. (2010). City Wide Adhan as heard from near Masgid Sheikh Abdullah on 08-08-2010 at 1:02pm: Dhurh Adhan [Audio file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237171
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 near
the Sheikh Abdullah Mosque in the neighbourhood of Gamaliya in
Islamic Cairo. The recording captures the voices of the muezzins
of Cairo, 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. (While each of the 10 locations generally only has one
adhan represented here, the Gamaliya location has more elaborate documentation)
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Muezzin, Adhan, Cairo, Egypt, Ethnomusicology, Islam, Mosque, Sacred music, Call to prayer, Ancient tradition
Spatial Coverage
Near Masgid Sheikh Abdullah al Misbah'ah al-Husseini, Gamaliya (Islamic Cairo), Cairo
Temporal Coverage
August 8th 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/1810/237171
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported