With regard to “Muzzling the muezzin” (Editorial, November 15), the Muslim calls to prayer are lengthy and loud, sounded five times a day, beginning at around 4 a.m. They are unnerving.

Just home from school on an ordinary afternoon, Sana Shah, 16, plops down her books, shakes out her hair and heads upstairs to watch some TV. She switches the set in her parents' bedroom to Roswell ...

Police have arrested a muezzin of BSCIC Jame Mosque in Gopalganj for allegedly raping a five-year old child on Sunday. Md Selim Reza, OC of Gopalganj Sadar police station, told the Dhaka Tribune that ...

I met Muezzin Karim in November of 2001, when I came to Mazar-e-Sharif for the first time. I was staying at a hotel across the street from the mosque; each evening, the intricate syncopations and ...

Ministers approve 'muezzin law' Ministerial Committee for Legislation approves law prohibiting the use of loudspeakers by places of worship.

While the Muezzin Bill was unanimously approved by the Ministerial Legislation Committee, its path to becoming law has now encountered an interesting entanglement.

After the muezzin’s call, the daily services are led by the imam in the mosque. Judaism and Islam, therefore, are the only two real expressions of monotheistic religion.

Man has served as muezzin for 30 years without committing any infringement The muezzin’s attire had triggered an outcry in the country, with detractors arguing that wearing the shorts is ...

It’s all part of the experience—head to any Islamic country and five times a day you’ll hear the polyphony of the azan, the call to prayer, from neighbouring mosques.

A video of a muezzin of a mosque in Gaza passing away while reciting the Holy Quran has gone viral on social media platforms. The video, which was doing rounds on social media on Sunday, begins with ...

BERLIN (AP) — The German city of Cologne will start permitting mosques to broadcast muezzin calls for prayer, the city said Monday. The calls can be broadcast for five minutes every week for the ...