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Tuesday (5a)
Muslim discourse about music: the historical past
Due today
Two page report on the following readings: ; submit on eClass.
- Read Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qur'an, chapter 3: The Sama` Polemic. OR read "The samā' Controversy: Sufi vs. Legalist", by Arthur Gribetz, Studia Islamica, No. 74 (1991), pp. 43-62. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1595896
- Read Shiloah, Music in the World of Islam, chapter 4, as well as pp. 49-51 (section: "the ethical, cosmological and therapeutic approach"), and pp. 63-65 ( sections: "the pejorative view of malahi" and "the cosmological approach".
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Thursday (5b)
Due today
Short research proposal (1 page) on a relevant topic of your choice. Please include the following (a) a title indicating the topic and scope; (b) a paragraph documenting the aim and significance of your research project - what are the primary questions you seek to answer?; (c) a paragraph of background information, in which you should refer to a few secondary sources. Note that the research should be based primarily on scholarly secondary sources (but not encyclopedias!), combined with online primary sources, such as websites or youtube videos.