The adhan, or the call to prayer, is an important reminder called from the minarets of mosques for Muslims to congregate and perform their prayers. In choosing to not call the adhan, is the Duke ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. It is also legislated for you to ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Minneapolis will allow broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all hours, becoming the first major U.S. city to allow the announcement or “adhan” to be heard over speakers ...

What needs to be done, if the caller to prayer makes a mistake while delivering the Adhan? The mistake was adding an extra Ish-had that there is no God but Allah. What Kaffara needs to be made, if any ...

The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) on Wednesday approved a preliminary reading of a controversial bill that would ban the use of loudspeakers to amplify the Muslim call to prayer (adhan). The reading ...

In a historic first, the Islamic call to prayer, known as the adhan, resonated through the loudspeaker of one of New York's largest mosques on Friday. Many Muslims attending Friday prayers at the ...

When living in Saudi Arabia we take it for granted, the call to prayer. Echoing through the sky, the adhan drifts up from the minarets of mosques in every neighborhood, one chiming only a fraction of ...

Two weeks ago, the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan in Arabic, was broadcast from the steps of Widener Library across Harvard Yard as part of Harvard Islamic Society’s “Islam Awareness Week.” No doubt ...

For the next year, NPR will take a musical journey across America, which is one of the most religiously diverse countries on earth. We want to discover and celebrate the many ways in which people make ...

Reporting from Istanbul — Five times a day, the loudspeakers affixed to the spires of some 90,000 state-run mosques crackle to life, and the Islamic call to prayer bathes the streets of Istanbul and ...