Outline of music in Arab-Islamic civilization
Six factors shaping Arab Islamicate music through history: (after Dr. Jihad Racy)
- Contact with Assimilated Cultures
(especially musical traditions of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium, and Persia)
- Contact with the Classical Past (ancient Greece)
- Contact with the Medieval West (crusades, Andalusia)
- Rule of Ottoman Turks (1517-1917)
- Contact with the Modern West (1798 - present)
- Influence of Mass media
- Recording
- Film
- Radio
- TV