Outline of music in Arab-Islamic civilization
- Contact with Assimilated Cultures
- Madina
- Damascus - Umayyads (661-750)
- Baghdad - Abbasids (750-909)
- Assimilation of musical traditions of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium, and Persia.
- Contact with the Classical Past
- Contact with the Medieval West
- Rule of Ottoman Turks (1517-1917)
- Contact with the Modern West (1798 - present)
- Influence of Mass media
- Recording
- Film
- Radio
- TV