Masgid Sultan Qansuh Al Ghury: Sheikh Antar: Asr Adhan

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