Via the blog Chibzuieli, I learned of the above combination of the Ave Maria and the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer. It doesn’t work fantastically well musically speaking, but the very act of combining the two is interesting from the perspective of interreligious dialogue, especially coming (as this arrangement and performance does) from Lebanon.
Does such a mash-up of the call to prayer and the Hail Mary make theological sense? Does anything more meaningful come out of the combination of the two texts than comes out of the combination of the two melodies? Or can the combination be meaningful for what it represents, independently of the meaning of the words sung?
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