muezzin

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• Good Mohammedans pray five times every day, and there is a church officer called a muezzin (mu-ez'-zin), who gives them notice of the hour for prayer. Famous Men of the Middle Ages
• It was obvious that not only the last, but all the other muezzin calls had come from the scrawny throat of my son. LION IN THE VALLEY
• As we stood overlooking the east end of town, tourists milling around us, the muezzin of a mosque down in the valley began his call to prayer.
• Talk Of The Town: If you're at a loose end in Hargeisa after dipping into the cacophonous effervescence of markets crowded with donkey carts amid the amplified calls of the muezzin, you could do worse than go to the Imperial Hotel, just beyond the walled presidential palace. Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS)
• Muezzins invoke a call to prayer, reminding everyone it is either time to pray or to call them to the mosque, and imams lead the prayers.
• The main religious figures in the Muslim community are muezzins, who are scholars of the Koran and sound the call to prayer from mosques.
• The muezzin had sounded and Fellah had ignored the call to prayers. SKORPION'S DEATH
• On July 10, the muezzin called for the Muslim prayers from the minarets of Grenada's grand mosque once again after nearly 500 years of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula.
• The call to prayer from a nearby muezzin drifts over the croplands.
• This is the impression everywhere produced by this spirit of the sandy wastes; this is the voice of the desert the muezzin cries from the high turrets of the city. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)