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)
  • 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...)