“a minaret of light”: transducing the islamic call to prayer?

Arab, Pooyan Tamimi

doi:10.1080/17432200.2015.1059126

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“…Minaret is a type of tall tower on a mosque from which Muslims are called to pray. It is also a metaphor in Islamic cultures to imply where souls reorient toward a transcendent good (Tamimi Arab, 2015). In this discourse, ‘Halal Internet’ or ‘Clean Internet’ as a National Information Network (NIN) refers to the same intention.…”

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The adoption of social messaging apps in Iran: Discourses and challenges

Bayat

Fathian

Moghaddam

et al. 2021

Information Development

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Today, social networks are the most popular and widely used applications among smartphone users all around the world. Three years ago, the Telegram messaging app was the most widely used social messaging app in Iran due to its technical features and user-friendliness. Despite its popularity, Telegram caused controversial debates among policymakers and public opinion. To discover the nature of these conflicts, two main discourses were identified through qualitative data analysis based on Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory. Proponents of Minaret discourse consider the Telegram as a threat to national security, thus they have tried to provide favorable condition to limit using it, and develop alternative domestic apps. In contrast, Cylinder discourse supports using the Telegram app to fulfill citizens’ digital rights and their rights of privacy and freedom of expression. This discursive conflict among policymakers, along with users’ resistance, resulted in some failures in the adoption of foreign apps (e.g., Telegram). Despite the extensive technical, financial, and moral supports to popularize domestic apps, users still prefer foreign apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, and Instagram. The analysis of emergent discourses demonstrates the origins of contestations and provides insights into how to adopt social messaging apps.

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The adoption of social messaging apps in Iran: Discourses and challenges

Bayat

Fathian

Moghaddam

et al. 2021

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“…Among these, the Islamic call to prayer has received particular attention and has been seen as a way of sacralising space as well as of claiming religious space in heterogeneous urban settings. There have been heated societal debates over the public presence of the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, in non-majority Muslim contexts, and its recordings and radio broadcasts have also been contested (Tamimi Arab 2015;Larkin 2014;Lee 1999).…”

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Calling to Prayer in ‘Pandemic Times’: Muslim Women’s Practices and Contested (Public) Spaces in Germany

Pfeifer¹

2022

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This article explores how the regulations imposed during Germany’s first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 impacted on gendered mosque spaces and the digital spheres relating to those spaces. Examining the call to prayer as a sensory form that establishes “aesthetic formations” (Meyer 2009), the article unpacks gender-specific Muslim perspectives on space within mosques and the contested position mosques occupy in German public space. Paying particular attention to the temporalities of the pandemic restrictions, the article reflects on women’s (digital) practices and relates them to ongoing debates about the contested presence of sonic markers of Muslim religiosity in public space in Germany. It argues that the heterogeneous digital practices and discourses that emerged in ‘pandemic times’ should not only be viewed as extraordinary responses to an exceptional situation, but as exemplary of ongoing debates over gendered Muslim spaces and publicness in Germany.

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“…he use of loudspeakers and amplification of mosque sounds has caused religious conflict around the world, particularly in Muslim minority areas. In several Muslim minority countries, such as India, South Africa (Moosa, 2021), and the Netherlands (Tamimi Arab, 2015), Muslims associated with the sound of azan (the call to prayer) from mosques are prohibited from interacting with followers of other religions. The local government has established several strategies and regulations to resolve interreligious conflicts caused by religious sounds.…”

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Christians’ Tolerance of Muslims’ Religious Sounds in Tana Toraja

Akbar¹,

Rantesalu

2023

Al-Qalam

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Despite extensive research on religious tolerance, there is little empirical research on the sensitive issue of sacred sound, particularly in minority Muslim areas. This issue emerged in Indonesia following the Minister of Religious Affairs' policy to regulate loudspeakers from mosques, which were seen as potentially causing intolerance. Religious tolerance remains well established in Muslim-minority areas such as Tana Toraja, even though mosques are allowed to sound freely. The present research explores the traces of Christian tolerance to the sound of mosques heard by minority Muslims. This qualitative study applied an interpretive phenomenological research design with religious leaders, academics, students, and Christian community members as data sources. Garret Keizer's noise theory and Robert Hayden's concept of tolerance categorisation were used to analyse the data. The research results indicated tolerance between religious communities as the mosque sound was accepted as a natural-cultural sound rather than a theological sound. Therefore, intolerance potential arises from the sociological rather than theological dimension. This study suggests that religious tolerance should be shaped by a professional understanding of one's faith and an appropriate response to the religious practices of others. External factors such as social, economic, and political issues, often framed as religious issues, are at the root of religious intolerance. In order to counter the risk of intolerance, a systematic and continuous socialisation of a moderate understanding of all elements of the religious communities is required.

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“a minaret of light”: transducing the islamic call to prayer?

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

The adoption of social messaging apps in Iran: Discourses and challenges

The adoption of social messaging apps in Iran: Discourses and challenges

Calling to Prayer in ‘Pandemic Times’: Muslim Women’s Practices and Contested (Public) Spaces in Germany

Christians’ Tolerance of Muslims’ Religious Sounds in Tana Toraja

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