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Omar Makram Mosque: Sheikh Ahmed: Adhan Recitation

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http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237169

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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 Ahmed has been a volunteer muezzin at Masgid Omar Makram for 12 years. Here he recites the adhan in one of his many versions; he is also a Quran teacher – Sheikh Makra’a.

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