muezzin

• Then there was the muezzin, whose strange, enchanting, melancholic call came during the night and before dawn. —  open source theology - Comments
• The muezzin, a man appointed to call to prayer, climbs the minaret of the mosque, and he calls over the loud speakers in all directions, —  Anglican National News
• Wizened old men make their way to the mosque, clutching dog-eared texts as the muezzin sounds the call to prayer. —  Mail & Guardian Online
• I felt as lonely as a muezzin, as a reluctant piano lesson on a Saturday afternoon, as the Last Post played on a cracked bugle. —  C I N E B E A T S
• It was Umar al-Khattab, who was to be the second caliph after the Prophet's death, who suggested that a person call the others to prayer, to which the Prophet instructed a black Muslim youth, Bilal, to make the call to prayer (hence the name Bilal in some languages becoming synonym to the word 'muezzin'). —  politics101malaysia

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