Michael Frishkopf's research on the Sounds of Islam

Publications: books, book chapters, articles

• The Sonorous Audible Mosque (in press)
• Textual Dimensions of the Public Ḥaḍra in Egyptian Sufism. Musicological Annual (2022) 58 (1): 61–99. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.58.1.61-99.
• The sonic performance of Islamic congregational prayer: Ṣalāh in mainstream Egyptian practice. Performing Islam, Volume 9, Numbers 1-2, December 2021, pp. 5-114 (110 pages)
• Frishkopf, Michael. “Identity maintenance through ritual language performance among contemporary Egyptian Sufi orders.” 2019. In Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings: Heavenly Acts, ed. Andrey Rosowsky, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 233-266.
• Frishkopf, Michael. Paralinguistic Ramification of Language Performance in Islamic Ritual, Yale Journal of Music and Religion, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2018.
• Frishkopf, Michael and Federico Spinetti, editors. Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam, (University of Texas Press, 2018). (http://bit.ly/musari) Supplemental AV materials are on Archnet. Turkish translation: İslam'da Müzik, Ses ve Mimari, tranlated by Şükrü Atsızelti. Publication expected November 2020.
• “Muslims, music, and tolerance in Egypt and Ghana: a comparative perspective on difference." In Islam and Popular Culture, ed. by Karin van Nieuwkerk. University of Texas Press, 2016.
• Against ethnomusicology: Language performance and the social impact of ritual performance in Islam, Performing Islam, Volume 2, Number 1, December 2013 , pp. 11-43.
• "Music as debate: Social forces shaping the heterodoxy of Sufi performance in contemporary Egypt." In Music, Culture and Identity in the Muslim World: Performance, Politics and Piety. Ed. Kamal Salhi. London: Routledge, 2013.
• “Ritual as strategic action: the social logic of musical silence in Canadian Islam”, in Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater: Artistic Developments in the Muslim World, edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011
• "Mediated Qur’anic recitation and the contestation of Islam in contemporary Egypt", in [http://books.google.ca/books?
• "Globalizing the soundworld - Islam and Sufi Music in the West", in Sufis in the West (Routledge, 2008)
• “Music”, in The Islamic World, edited by Andrew Rippin (Routledge "Worlds" series). New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 510-526.
• “‘Islamic Music in Africa’ as a tool for African Studies”, in Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 42, #2/3, 2008, pp. 478-507.
• Islamic Music, in New Encyclopedia of Africa, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007, pp. 643-648.
• "al-Inshad al-Dini (Islamic religious singing) in Egypt", Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 6 (2002).
• "Changing modalities in the globalization of Islamic saint veneration and mysticism: Sidi Ibrahim al-Dasuqi, Shaykh Muhammad ‘Uthman al-Burhani, and their Sufi Orders". Religious Studies and Theology, v. 20 nos. 1 & 2(2001).
• "Tarab in the Mystic Sufi Chant of Egypt", in: Colors of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East, edited by Sherifa Zuhur. American University in Cairo Press, 2001, pp. 233-269
• The Magic of the Sufi Inshad: Sheikh Yasin al-Tuhami (compact disc liner notes). Paris: Long Distance, Real World Works, 1998
• La voix du poète : tarab et poésie dans le chant mystique soufi

Videos

• Excerpt from a Tijaniyya Mawlidi, Tamale, Northern Ghana (2014)
• The weekly Saturday hadra at the saha of Sidi Ali Zayn al-Abidin (Sufism in Cairo) (2011)
• Five Sufi hadras: Sufi chanting in Egypt 1996-1998. The final hadra, performed by Shaykh Yasin al-Tuhami, is presented in full here.
• Videographer for Celebrating the Prophet in the Remembrance of God: Sufi Dhikr in Egypt, an educational video produced by Dr. Valerie Hoffman, Professor in the Program for the Study of Religion, University of Illinois, 1997.

Extended (XR) Reality projects

• Sounding the Garden (http://bit.ly/soundingthegarden), an augmented and virtual reality project centered on the University of Alberta's Aga Khan Garden
• Virtual Sonic Architecture: The Ottoman mosque of Hadım İbrahim Paşa Virtual Sonic Architecture: http://bit.ly/vsahipm

Archival projects

(in progress)

• Sounding Islam: Egypt, Ghana, South Asia, Indonesia
• Wahba-Alexandru Egyptian folklore project