Music and Islam talk
Michael Frishkopf Dept of Music
- Following Marshall Hodgson, we distinguish between Islamic music and Islamicate music
- Outline of music in Arab-Islamic civilization (after Ali Jihad Racy)
- Music and the Islam factor
- Islamicate music in theory (musiqi) and practice (ghina')
- Musical features of Islamicate music
- [Video of the singer, Sabah Fakhri, probably the greatest living exponent of the pre-mediated Islamicate style in Syria
- Discourse about music in Islam
- Islamic performance genres
- Qur'anic recitation
- Sufi performance (Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco)
- Islamic themes in mediated popular music
Video resources:
- Egyptian Sufi
- Umm Kulthum
- Qawwali
- Mevlevi
- al-Risala