(n.) A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
(2) Minaret and other such snooping programs led to an explosive series of congressional hearings in 1970s named the Senate select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities, chaired by Frank Church of Idaho in 1975.
(3) The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.
(4) As night gives way to the early signs of morning light, you hear blended tones of praise and prayers rising from the minarets that surround you, usually performed by old men who are declaring the birth of a new day.
(5) The banning of minarets may prove to be the tip of an upcoming iceberg.
(6) More than half of the listed buildings in the old city – including many souks, its famous citadel, the minaret of the 11th-century Umayyad mosque, along with bath houses, schools, hospitals and entire residential districts – have been reduced to rubble.
(7) All reports generated for Minaret were printed on plain paper unadorned with the NSA logo or other identifying markings other than the stamp "For Background Use Only".
(8) But today it is a lively atmospheric city, particularly at night, with the call to prayer rolling down the hillside from the illuminated minarets of its 200 mosques, young people thronging cafes and bars, the smell of grilling cevapcici and sweetcorn on street corners.
(9) I live in the northern suburbs of the city, where from my backyard I can see the spires of Catholic and Orthodox churches, the minaret of a mosque.
(10) Swiss Minaret Ban For years the sometimes called "clash of cultures" between Islam and European ideals has caused controversy, leading to many western countries creating laws to restrict Islamic culture.
(11) Its ancient Silk Road market lies in ruins, as does the great Umayyad mosque and its 11th-century minaret, felled by artillery in 2013.
(12) In addition to the new details of Minaret, the declassified passages of the NSA history also disclose the more acceptable face of the agency's work that played an important part in some of the biggest crises of the Cold War.
(13) The omnipresence of the minarets and the muezzin's call – particularly around 5am – are a vivid reminder for the non-devout of the dominant deity's importance.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The minaret of the grand mosque at Agadez, which was first built in the 16th century.
(15) But in the minaret-dotted city, where sharia in theory requires gay men to be stoned to death, such stolen moments are fraught.
(16) Gazing out over the city centre – and the remnants of Tange’s plan – from the Polish-designed Museum of Modern Art, a concrete-and-marble gallery placed at the top of the 15th-century Ottoman Fortress, architect Vladimir Deskov tells me: “The plan was a hundred years in advance of the city.” The old Skopje is centred around the Old Bazaar, a series of winding, cobbled streets with a skyline of domes and minarets.
(17) Now, around its northernmost branches where the minarets and pylons thin out and the landscape becomes more windswept, another is playing out to devastating effect.
(18) The epitome of this is the minaret ban in Switzerland.
(19) This is part of what’s happening,” says Mohamed Tuwara, sitting in the shadow of the town’s famous minaret.
(20) The minarets of the Old Bazaar are screened off by ludicrously tall monuments; the international, modern buildings of the socialist era are given mock-classical dressings.
Muezzin
Definition:
(n.) A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
(2) The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.
(3) At dawn, the muezzin's call to prayer was drowned out by the sound of mortar fire as troops loyal to Saleh fought with a division of renegade soldiers for control over strategic parts of the capital.
(4) The omnipresence of the minarets and the muezzin's call – particularly around 5am – are a vivid reminder for the non-devout of the dominant deity's importance.
(5) "I don't want my grandchildren and great-grandchildren to live in a mostly Muslim country where Turkish and Arabic are widely spoken, women wear headscarves and the day is measured out by the muezzin's call to prayer," he said.
(6) When its population emerges in the evening to promenade and gather outside cafés, you could imagine you were somewhere in Italy – until you hear a muezzin's call from one of the city's many mosques, or fix your eye on a building that looks like it was transplanted from 1950s Moscow.
(7) If our suspicions are confirmed, this would be the first time they have done this and it would mark a new phase.” Crouched on a verge amid ash and soot, Sarfi Abdul Hassan, 73, a muezzin from a nearby Shia mosque, known as a Husseiniya, said his grandson had survived the inferno by hiding in a fridge.
(8) In other tweets, he made fun of a muezzin (a caller to prayer) and certain religious practices.
(9) A muezzin called for prayer and the whole town began to converge on the mosque.
(10) We have not had to do major patching up since 2006 when the Aga Khan’s restoration programme began,” says the Djinguereber muezzin, Mahamane Mahanmoudou.
(11) Outside the hospital gates a weeping muezzin gathered protesters for a mass prayer to mourn the death of 10 people on Friday, nine of them pro-opposition tribal fighters and one of them a journalist who died after being shot a few days earlier.
(12) But nothing now.” J ust before noon, the muezzin’s call rang from the loudspeaker atop the minaret.
(13) Delusionally aimed at Muslims in leadership roles, including muezzins and heads of NGOs, this charter assumes that the likes of the Muslim Council of Britain and al-Azhar – the 10th-century university in Cairo (and why not) – will jump at the chance to sign up to such things as denouncing sections of the Qur'an relating to jihad, confirming that "no violent physical jihad operation will be regarded as sacred" (article 6a) and that "no one who chooses to die in such an operation will be acknowledged as a martyr" (article 6c).
(14) God is great,” sang the muezzin, and the mourners pressed their foreheads to the asphalt.