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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 ...
English: The Muezzin, 1865, Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904), oil on canvas, Joslyn Art Museum. ... Author: Bruce White: Exposure time: 6/1 sec (6) F-number ...
The muezzin (Arabic: مُؤَذِّن muʾaḏḏin) is the person who recites the adhan [7] [8]: 470 from the mosque. Typically in modern times, this is done using a microphone: [ 9 ] a recitation that is consequently broadcast to the speakers usually mounted on the higher part of the mosque's minarets, thus calling those nearby to prayer.
[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.
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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.