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08 Jun 2008 Sun 05:27 pm |
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Quoting libralady: That on this day in 1950, the call to prayer was legalized to be called in Arabic.
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A little more clarification:
The call to prayer, Adhan in arabic and ezan in Turkish (note that vowels in Arabic often change in turkish when transliteration because the vowel system is different, and the arabic D sounds a little like a Z, hence EZan), is ofcourse originally in Arabic. However, in the period of Ataturk, 2 of the 6 pillars played a significant role: nationalism and secularism. Ataturk wanted to make from Islam a private matter, not a community matter etc. Also he gave an impuls to Turkish sentiments of nationalism, in which he tried to undo the language from its arabic and persian loanwords. Furthermore, he wanted to rise the status of Turkish and prove it to be a language to be respected that did not need other languages. Hence, the choice to translate the call to prayer from Arabic to Turkish. I believe that instead of Allahuakbar (dont know how to spell here), it was something like Ulu Tanri.
Neyse, this was just some background to the fact why it wasnt always in Arabic 
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It was boring and filled with mistakes at the wrong times. They got lucky that the portuguese hit the bar several times!
