2) azan. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Islam The Muslim summons to prayer, called by the muezzin from a minaret of a mosque five times a day. Arabic an, from aana, to call to prayer, derived stem of aina,...

3) minaret. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., tower, used in Islamic architecture, from which the faithful are called to prayer by a muezzin. Most mosques have one or more small towers, which are usually placed...

4) minaret. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...slender tower attached to a mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a muezzin summons the people to prayer. French, from Turkish minrat, from Arabic...

5) 94. Thrushes by Frank S. Williamson. Murdoch, Walter, comp. 1918. The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse
...thy pinetree minaret, Summoning the wandering Faithful while the crimson lingers yet! Love s Muezzin, loud entreating, and thy melody repeating To the city folk so...

6) liturgy, Islamic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...is preceded by ablutions. The salat is also preceded by a call to prayer announced by a muezzin. It consists of the repetition of prayer cycles (raka) each composed...

7) 1404. Khamsin by Clinton Scollard. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900
...The wizened dervish breathed no vow, 10 So weary and parched was he. The lean muezzin could not cry; The dogs ran mad, and bayed the sky; The hot sun shone like a...

8) 194. Aladdin and the Jinn by Vachel Lindsay. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology
...too shallow, Their quarrels and arguments thin; 10 Forgetting the shouting muezzin. I am your slave, said the Jinn. Bring me old wines, said Aladdin, I have been...

9) 973. Reward. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...of Venice Tis deeds must win the prize.—Taming of the Shrew A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, Fools, your Reward is neither Here nor There. —Omar Khayyám—Fitzgerald...

10) §9. "Childe Harold". II. Byron. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...supreme gift of vivid portrayal, whether it be that of a Spanish bull-fight, the voice of a muezzin on the minaret of a Turkish mosque, or the sound of revelry on...