Masgid Mahmoudeya: Sheikh Hamed: Fajr Adhan
Authors
Kipervaser, Anna
On Look Films
LLC
Publication Date
2010-08-19Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
Other
Type
Video
Metadata
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Kipervaser, A., On Look Films, & LLC. (2010). Masgid Mahmoudeya: Sheikh Hamed: Fajr Adhan [Video file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237237
Description
Sheikh Hamed recites the Fajr adhan at 3:53am on August 19, 2010
at Mahmoudeya Mosque in Sayeda Aisha, calling the faithful to
come and to pray. He has been a muezzin here for 20 years.
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
Mahmoudeya Mosque, Sayeda Aisha, Cairo, Egypt
Temporal Coverage
August 19th 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/1810/237237
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported