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Masgid Mahmoudeya: Sheikh Hamed: Fajr Adhan

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http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237237

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Video

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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 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.

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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World Oral Literature Project

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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Except where otherwised noted, this item's license is described as Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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Hartley Film Foundation, National Geographic All Roads Film Project, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund

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Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo