To the editor: As The Times notes, the muezzin’s chant, “broadcast over a loudspeaker from the mosque’s minaret, is a familiar sound throughout the Islamic world, from the giant mosques of Cairo, ...

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Once the enchantment of living in a foreign country wears off, one begins to notice the small discomforts—for example, that the daily call to prayer can sound absolutely awful. I mean no disrespect; I ...

The City of Jerusalem intends to implement a plan to lower the voice of the muezzin which emanates from the Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem, Hadashot TV reported on Tuesday. According to the ...

President Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin today hosted a meeting between Jewish and Muslim leaders seeking to promote dialogue between the religious groups regarding the conduct of the muezzins across the ...

At sunup the other day, a white pigeon flew through the open window of my bathroom and settled, cooing, on the edge of the sink. A good omen, said my young translator, Ramesh. An invitation, I thought ...

Noor ul Islam recites Koran at the grand Faisal Mosque during Ramadan in Islamabad - Copyright AFP Aamir QURESHI Noor ul Islam recites Koran at the grand Faisal ...

The bill, which limits the volume of the muezzin’s call to prayer and the loudspeakers of all religious institutions during the day, came after several hours of heated debate. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A bill ...

AFP — Ibrahim Masri has been calling Muslims to prayer for nearly 15 years in a northern Israel city but his voice is now being silenced because he took part in a bodybuilding contest. The Interior ...

Israel’s Knesset has passed the preliminary reading of a bill that would bar mosques from using loudspeaker systems to amplify the muezzin, or Muslim call to prayer. The bill doesn’t actually say ...

For four decades, Ali Ahmed al-Mulla has been the muezzin of Grand Mosque of Mecca, in a family tradition handed down from one generation to other. Muezzin Ali is nicknamed ‘Bilal’ of the Grand Mosque ...