Sentences with phrase «muezzin calls to prayer»

Under close military supervision, Pereg spent one whole day following the adhān — the five Muezzin calls to prayer from 4:00 am to 9:00 pm — documenting the exceptional circumstances in which the ritual is conducted.

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Then I heard the two strange sounds I still associate with evenings in Igbaja: first, fruit bats pinging in the dense mango trees overhead, and then, from the big mosque in the center of town, the distorted hiss and crackle of the recorded muezzin, calling the Muslim faithful to evening prayer and» I couldn't help thinking» if necessary, to holy war.

THAT call to prayer with a REAL muezzin?

Because when you're ten years old and getting ready for bed, on a night that's just like any other night, no darker or starrier or more silent or more full of smells than usual, with the familiar sound of the muezzins calling the faithful to prayer from the tops of the minarets just like anywhere else... no, when you're ten years old - I say ten, although I'm not entirely sure when I was born, because there's no registry office or anything like that in Ghazni province - like I said, when you're ten years old, and your mother, before putting you to bed, takes your head and holds it against her breast for a long time, longer than usual, and says, There are three things you must never do in life, Enaiat jan, for any reason... The first is use drugs.

Yet, this is a country of contradictions: despite the ostensible unimportance of Islam in Turkish society and its total exclusion from the business of government, every day at 5 p.m. the country reverberates to the haunting sound of the muezzin's call as 40 million Turks make their way to prayers.

Pereg returned to Hebron, where she spent one whole day following the adhan, the five Muezzin calls for prayer from 4 am to 9 pm, documenting the singularity of the way in which the ritual is conducted in the Cave of the Patriarch at this time.

Within the azan (call to prayer), «AAAAAAAAAAAH» is leading to the word «Allah», the lengthening of the words and sounds by the singer / muezzin is a variable characteristic.