Masgid Sultan Qansuh Al Ghury: Sheikh Antar: Asr Adhan
Authors
Kipervaser, Anna
LLC
On Look Films
Publication Date
2010-08-10Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
Other
Type
Video
Metadata
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Kipervaser, A., LLC, & On Look Films. (2010). Masgid Sultan Qansuh Al Ghury: Sheikh Antar: Asr Adhan [Video file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237174
Description
Sheikh Antar recites ‘Asr adhan at 4:38pm on August 10, 2010 at the
Sultan Qansuh Al Ghury Mosque in El-Hussein (Islamic Cairo), calling
the faithful to come and to pray. Sheikh Antar has recited the adhan
here for 5 years, as a volunteer.
Abstract
Video & audio recordings of 6 muezzins reciting the adhan (Muslim call to
prayer), with supporting photographs of muezzins and their respective mosques.
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Muezzin, Adhan, Cairo, Egypt, Ethnomusicology, Islam, Mosque, Sacred music, Call to prayer, Ancient tradition
Spatial Coverage
Sultan Qansuh Al Ghury Mosque, El-Hussein (Islamic Cairo), Cairo, Egypt
Temporal Coverage
August 10th 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/1810/237174
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported