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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 ...
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 ...
Raouf Hannachi is a Tunisian born Canadian citizen who served as the Muezzin at the Assuna Mosque in Montreal. In October 2001, he was captured by the United States government and transferred to Tunisian officials, where he was subsequently jailed. [1] [2] [3] Hannachi became a Canadian citizen in 1986 and lived in Montreal with his wife. [4]
His father was a muezzin with two wives; he had six brothers and nine sisters. [12] Al-Qurashi claimed to be Arab, [ 12 ] [ 42 ] but many sources have claimed that his family was Turkmen . [ 11 ] [ 40 ] [ 42 ] According to Nineveh genealogy expert Nizar al-Saadoun, most of al-Qurashi's clan—the al-Mawla —is Arab, and descended from the ...
Shahbal, the son of his blind cousin who is the muezzin of the mosque, personifies the author (Shahbal is called the "narrator" of the story in the cast of characters). Like Shahbal, Kader Abdolah was active in leftist underground political movements in the time of the Shah and of Khomeini, and fled Iran in 1985 to settle in the Netherlands.
[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 ...
Müezzin is a 2009 Austrian-Turkish documentary film directed by Sebastian Brameshuber about the annual Turkish competition for the best muezzin. The film was selected for the 29th International Istanbul Film Festival and 16th London Turkish Film Festival.
Pummerin statt Muezzin (Pummerin instead of muezzin). Pummerin is the main bell in St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna, and so a religious Christian symbol in Vienna. Heimat im Herzen (Homeland in the heart) Arbeit statt Zuwanderung (Jobs instead of immigration) Heinz-Christian Strache in 2008