Musical features
- Unifying Traits of Music at core of Islamic world (Arab/Turkish/Persian worlds)
- Centrality of language
- Centrality of melody
- Heterophony
- Ornament
- Modality (maqam)
- Microtonality
- Improvisation
- Rhythm and cycles
- Free rhythm forms
- Simple cycles
- Complex cycles
- Compound and other forms
- Fasil (Syria, Turkey)
- Nawba (North Africa)
- Wasla (Egypt)
- Dastgah (Iran)
- Instruments, arranged in small heterogenous ensembles (e.g. takht)
- qanun (a trapazoidal plucked zither)
- 'ud (a fretless plucked lute)
- nay (a reed flute)
- Western violin
- folk instruments
- electric and electronic instruments
- Theory
- History of theory in Islamicate philosophy (al-Kindi, al-Farabi, ibn Sina...)
- Acoustical and musical theory
- Cosmological (macro and micro) theory: ethos, therapy
- General theory
- Maqam
- History of theory in Islamicate philosophy (al-Kindi, al-Farabi, ibn Sina...)
- Practice
- Arab-Persian
- Shajarian