Sentences with word «muezzin»
The word "muezzin" refers to a person in Islamic culture who calls Muslims to prayer from a mosque. They use a special chanting voice and loudspeakers to make the call. Full definition
To this end, the Pope is «not averse to giving hints» that he himself «might... in the year 2000 announce his acceptance of the Qur» an and summon the faithful, through the papal muezzin, to join him in prayer at the Mosque of St. Peter.»
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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?
Bilal, born in 540 AD, was a slave who became one of the most trusted companions of Muhammad, and the first muezzin, using his beautiful voice to call worshippers 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.
You sing with them and command the muezzin to call out the azan backward because you yourself have just told my dog that it must be so from this day on.
On the other hand, I have lived in the East and heard the muezzin call the faithful to prayer.
The other thing that attracts your attention is the muezzin — the Muslim prayer tower.
Promoting dialogue between Canterbury and al - Azhar, as well as religious partnership in Egypt through the Family House initiative, he admits being moved by the cry of the muezzin.
The smells, the colours, the sound of the muezzin calling the faithful for the adhan (prayer) from the mosque minaret of the Koutoubia.
Most Egyptian women wear a veil, and at the five designated times a day when the muezzins call, commanding the Muslims to pray, the men come, filling the city's mosques.
Wretched creatures, blind and useless, they have shut their ears to the muezzin's call in order to hearken to the ribaldries of Satan.
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.
Set in amongst brightly painted houses, with Signal Hill behind it, and the muezzin's cry a timeless call to prayer, visitors gain insight into the lifestyle of 19th century Cape Muslims, their history and culture.
Here the call of the muezzin, not happy hour, defines the time of day.
Every morning we awoke to the sound of the muezzin from the Blue Mosque.
The most undeveloped island, Meno offers a blissfully chill vibe, where a ban on parties means that the only sounds are the whisper of the surf and the muezzin's call to prayer resounding through the trees.
ISHMAEL follows a day's journey of a Muezzin, escorted by Israel Defense Forces soldiers, as he makes his way from the mosque through the synagogue and back.