[Andalusi Studies] FW: Trumpets used as "call to prayer"?

[Yadgar, Liran]

Dear Dwight,

On Muslims signaling the time of prayer with the sound of a trumpet in Medieval Sicily and Iberia, see the references in Olivia Remie Constable, "Regulating Religious Noise: The Council of Vienne, the Mosque Call and Muslim Pilgrimage in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World," Medieval Encounters, 16 (2010): 64-95, at 69, 70, 73, 79-80; and in early twentieth-century Morocco (Fes): Edward Westermarck, Ritual and Belief in Morocco, London, 1926, 2:91. Cf. Ibn Taymiyya's admonition of using trumpets during the adhan, thus following the costumes of the Jews, in Ibn Taymiya's Struggle against Popular Religion, trans. Muhammad Umar Memon, p. 165; F.E. Peters, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation, Princeton, 1990, 3:101-102 (a passage from Ibn Ishaq's Biography of the Prophet Muhammad). On Ali Exadit, see the passages cited in Luis Rubio Garcia, Estudios sobre la Edad Media espanola, pp. 105-106.

Best wishes,

Liran

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I am currently in Barcelona gathering material about "Moorish" and
Jewish musicians in Aragon and Catalonia in the medieval period.

In an article about musicians hired by the Municipality of L?rida I
found the passage below that is (for me at least) surprising:

    "En el a?o 1356, Pedro IV defiende el canto y m?sica de los moros
y sarracenos, que llaman a sus fieles a los templos con el sonido de
trompetas y a?afiles, en lugar de las campanas por los cristianos."

Unfortunately the author does not give a citation, so I cannot give
you the original Catalan, though I hope to track it down eventually.

Is this simply a fanciful (and incorrect) idea of King Pedro of
Aragon's? Or does anyone know of other references to Muslims in Spain
(or elsewhere) using trumpets to announce prayer times or to call
people to mosques?

Or can someone possibly offer another interpretation of this passage?

This is connected to the Municipality of L?rida's hiring of a Moorish
trumpeter named Ali Exadit [al-Shad?d??] on a one-year contract with a
salary of 100 valencian (jaques) solidos and six "alnes" of
"campred?n" cloth in the year 1400.

The same trumpeter pops up again in the financial registers in the
year 1410 with a slightly higher salary and seven lengths of the same
cloth once he has sworn to serve the city faithfully [E lo dit Ali
Exadit promes servir be e lealment la ciutat].


Many thanks,
Dwight



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