Episode (1) of the linguistic analysis of the call to truth

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Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arabic Language, Cairo, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

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The call to truth (the call to prayer - Azan) is one of the trusted linguistic texts that are invoked, as it was narrated by the Prophet - may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him-, and it was authenticated by the honorable hadiths. Due to the eminent status of this sacred text proved by periodicity (Tawatur*), the role of linguistic analysis in revealing the linguistic secrets of this call and since there was no study - as I read - analyzed it in this way, I determined to analyze this call (Azan) linguistically at the four levels of language: phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and semantic in order to identify its linguistic secrets.
      However, due to the conditions of publication, I divided it into episodes; the first one will be presented by me today. I started this episode by documenting the hadiths of this call, and then analyzed its words phonetically at the level of the single sound, and at the level of the audio clips (Syllables).
* (Tawatur) is that a hadith is narrated by multiple narrators whose number makes it normally impossible that they agree to a lie.
 

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