Pre-Islamic sources and Islamicate music
- Source: pre-Islamic Arabian features that remained at the core of Islamic culture, carried by Islam though not strictly speaking part of it...
- Centrality of Arabic language and verbal arts, especially poetry
- Linguistic form: the qasida (monorhyme, monometer)
- Genres of love (nasib), praise (madih), description, satire (hija')
- Courtesan tradition: the qayna