The Iqama or Iqamah ( ar, إِقَامَة, ') is the second call to Islamic Prayer, given immediately before prayer begins. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition Online. Edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs The iqama is given a more rapid and less sonorous rendering than the first call, the

adhan Adhan ( ar, أَذَان ; also variously transliterated as athan, adhane (in French), azan/azaan (in South Asia), adzan (in Southeast Asia), and ezan (in Turkish), among other languages) is the Islamic call to public prayer ( salah) in a mo ...

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, rather than to remind those outside the mosque to come in. The phrases of the iqama and the adhan are the same, though there are variations among sects in the preferred number of repetitions of the phrases.

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schools both use the same number of repetitions of the formula for both the Adhan and the Iqama, contrary to all the other Islamic schools. According to the Malikis, everything is said as normal (Allahu Akbar - 2x, Ashadu ala ilaha illa Allah - 1x, Ashadu anna Muhammadur RasoolAllah - 1x, Hayya ala salah - 1x, Hayya alal falah - 1x ..... Allahu Akbar - 2x, La ilaha illa Allah) with the exeception of saying 'Qad qamati salah' only once.

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''Iqāma'' is the '' maṣdar'' form of the fourth (

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Q- W- M, which relates to setting things up, carrying things out, existence, and assorted other meanings. The word ''iqāma'' itself is multivalent, but its most common meaning outside the inauguration of prayer is in the context of

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Iqamah being recited before prayer in Mecca

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