Islamic content and Islamicate music
- Islamic content
- Ritual practice
- Language-centrality
- Discourse
- Ethical conditions - Sharia: discourse and controversy over music, music terms
- Qur'an
- Sunna (Hadith)
- Ethical conditions - Sharia: discourse and controversy over music, music terms
- Mystical currents (Sufism) in practice and discourse
- "tazkiyat al-nafs, tarqiyat al-ruh" (taming the self; raising the spirit or soul)
- Batin > Zahir (Haqiqa > Sharia) (flexibility)
- Experiential relation to God
- Absorption of local traditions
- Aesthetic as means to spirituality, expression of spirituality
- Use of music/poetry to express/attain spiritual state (ecstasy, union, annihilation...)