Members of the Duke Muslim Students Association will chant the call, known as adhan or azan, from the Duke Chapel bell tower each Friday at 1 p.m. The call to prayer will last about three minutes and ...

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 ...

The city of Minneapolis in the U.S. Midwest has allowed the Islamic call to prayer, known as the adhan, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan. The call to prayer can be recited by local mosques in the ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim ...

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 ...

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 ...

The controversy sparked when Duke University announced they would amplify a weekly Muslim call to prayer from the chapel’s bell tower — a decision they canceled two days later, citing violent threats ...

Minneapolis on Thursday became the first major American city to permit unfettered broadcast of the Muslim call to prayer, allowing the adhan to be heard over speakers five times a day, year-round. The ...