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2. Muezzin - Wikipedia

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   The muezzin (/ m (j) u ˈ ɛ z ɪ n /; [1] Arabic: مُؤَذِّن) is the person who proclaims the call to the daily prayer five times a day (Fajr prayer, Zuhr prayer, Asr prayer, Maghrib prayer and Isha prayer) at a mosque from the minaret. [2] [3] The muezzin plays an important role in ensuring an accurate prayer schedule for the Muslim ...

3. Bilal ibn Rabah - Wikipedia

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   Bilal ibn Rabah was born in Mecca in the Hejaz in the year 580. [5] There are differing accounts to the racial identity of his father according to historians. One account states that his father was an Abyssinian prisoner of war who had been given the name of Rabah, in Arabic meaning profitable, he had been handed over as a slave to the Quraishi Arab clan of Banu Jumah, this account is highly ...

4. Ali Ahmed Mullah - Wikipedia

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   Ali Ahmed Mullah (born 5 July 1947), is the veteran muazzin (caller for prayer) at the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia for the past four decades. [3] [4] [5] Ali Ahmed Mulla is the longest serving muazzin for the Masjid al-Haram and has been following his family tradition in this profession since 1975.

5. Müezzinzade Ali Pasha - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] His father was a muezzin, hence his epithet Müezzinzade ("son of a muezzin"). He was trained in Enderûn. [3] He was a favorite of Sultan Selim II and of the women of the seraglio who admired his voice as a muezzin, [citation needed] and he married one of Selim II's daughters. [1] He would rise in Ottoman society as a member of the ...

6. Maccabees - Wikipedia

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   The three Ethiopian books of Meqabyan (quite distinct works from the other four books of Maccabees), which are canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, also refer to the Maccabee martyrs. The first of these books states that their father was a Benjamite named Maccabeus and that three of the brothers, who are called Abya, Seela, and ...

7. Richard Percival Lister - Wikipedia

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   His books on travel were highly personal, even autobiographical, and he largely illustrated them himself: A Journey in Lapland. The hard way to Haparanda. (Illustrations by the author) : Chapman & Hall: London, 1965. (Reprinted by Travel Book Club 1965.) A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness Cries : Harcourt 1967.

8. Persecution of Muslims by Meccans - Wikipedia

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   Slaves Sumayyah bint Khabbab, and her husband Yasir, were tortured to death by their master Abu Jahl. [8] [9]Muhammad was protected somewhat by the influence of his family. . Abu Lahab's wife, Umm Jamil, would regularly dump filth outside his door.

9. Üftade - Wikipedia

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   He stopped calling the azan the day after he was warned in his dream, "You have fallen (üftâde) from your rank" because he accepted a salary of a few coins. After this incident, he made a living by making sericulture, buttons and copying books. At the same time, he continued his duties as an honorary imam and muezzin. He started preaching and ...