Islamic content and Islamicate music
- Islamic content
- Ritual practice
- Language-centrality
- Specific forms of "language performance"
- Qur'anic recitation (tilawa)
- Call to prayer (adhan)
- Mawlid
- Sufi practices (see below)
- Discourse
- Ethical conditions
- Discourse and controversy over music, music terms
- Qur'anic source
- Sunna source (Hadith)
- Suspicion of music
- Forbidding musical instruments
- Contrast with high profile of music in the courts!
- 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...)
- Ritual practice