DURHAM, N.C. — The Muslim call to prayer echoed across Duke University's quad Friday, a day after the school canceled plans to have weekly services begin with an amplified call to prayer from the ...

Unless the route to Mecca now winds through a Washington state living room, someone may have made a mistake. A 3-year-old’s Christmas gift from his uncle – a toy fighter jet – blared an Islamic prayer ...

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 ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash., Dec. 30 (UPI) --The family of a Washington state 3-year-old said they were shocked when the boy's toy jet played an Islamic prayer instead of the expected airplane sound. Bjorn ...

An unexpected noise came out of a child’s present this Christmas: an Islamic prayer. Instead of whooshing and roaring expected out of a toy F-16 fighter jet bought on Amazon, the toy plays a prayer in ...

Under the newly introduced rules, mosques within the city will no longer require a special permit to publicly broadcast the Islamic call to prayer, known as the adhan. This melodic call will be ...

The call to prayer rang out at 7:49 on a Saturday evening as the sky glowed pink from the setting sun. Women in hijabs and masks gazed up at the mosque as the Arabic hymn floated down: Allah is the ...

Denise Gill is currently a fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The sounds of the recent military coup will long be remembered by people in Turkey. Yet as Turks in Istanbul, ...

Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim call to prayer, to be broadcast from mosques five times a day. In April 2023, the Minneapolis City Council ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minneapolis allows call to prayer to be publicly broadcast five times per day. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images Minneapolis ...