Difference between revisions of "Music and the Islam factor"
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** Courtesan tradition: the qayna | ** Courtesan tradition: the qayna | ||
* Expansion: powered by Islamic ideology | * Expansion: powered by Islamic ideology | ||
− | * Assimilation: openness to learning and multiculturalism (especially Persian arts and sciences) | + | * Assimilation: cultural fusion via openness to learning and multiculturalism (especially Persian arts and sciences) |
− | * Globalization, synergy: Islam provides cultural "lingua franca" | + | * Globalization, synergy: cultural diffusion, as Islam provides political/cultural/linguistic/religious "lingua franca" |
* Accumulation of financial capital | * Accumulation of financial capital | ||
** Opulent courts (Madina, Damascus, Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada...) | ** Opulent courts (Madina, Damascus, Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada...) |
Revision as of 12:27, 27 September 2007
Islamic influence upon Islamicate music
- Source: pre-Islamic Arabian features that remained at core of Islamic culture
- Centrality of Arabic language and verbal arts, especially poetry
- Linguistic form: the qasida (monorhyme, monometer)
- Genres of love (nasib), praise (madih), description, satire (hija')
- Courtesan tradition: the qayna
- Expansion: powered by Islamic ideology
- Assimilation: cultural fusion via openness to learning and multiculturalism (especially Persian arts and sciences)
- Globalization, synergy: cultural diffusion, as Islam provides political/cultural/linguistic/religious "lingua franca"
- Accumulation of financial capital
- Opulent courts (Madina, Damascus, Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada...)
- Leisure class
- Patronage of music and singing
- Professional class of musicians
- Accumulation of intellectual/artistic capital
- Bayt al-Hikma
- Music theory as philosophy
- Development of musical arts
- Islamic content
- Rituals
- Language-centrality
- Ethical conditions - Sharia: discourse and controversy over music, music terms
- Qur'an
- Sunna (Hadith)
- Mystical currents (Sufism)
- "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...)