The Mu’azzin’s Song: Islam and the African Diaspora of the Indian Ocean
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Omar H. Ali, Professor & Dean, Lloyd International Honors College (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Among my earliest memories as a child living in North Africa during the mid-l970s was listening to the azan, the melodic call to prayer heard daily across much of the Muslim world. Each morning, just before sunrise, I would hear the "song" as it gently filtered through my dreams. In the distance, the mu'azzin -the person making the call -would slowly fill the morning air with the opening words, Allah-u-akbar (God is great), stretching and then soulfully bending each vowel. Like a grain of sand, each rendition of the azan is slightly different from the next, each mu'azzin expressing his own unique sensibility.
The Mu’azzin’s Song: Islam and the African Diaspora of the Indian Ocean
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Additional Information
- Publication
- North Carolina Conversations, Winter/Spring 2012, 14-15
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- azan, mu'azzin, Islam, African Diaspora