Outline of music in Arab-Islamic civilization
Six factors shaping Arab Islamicate music through history: (after Dr. Jihad Racy)
- Contact with Assimilated Cultures, through Islamic expansion
(especially musical traditions of Persia, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium)
- Contact with the Classical Past (ancient Greece), through Bayt al-Hikma translation movement (Abbasid era)
- Contact with the Medieval West (crusades, Andalusia)
- Rule of Ottoman Turks over most of the Arab world (1517-1917)
- Contact with the Modern West (1798 - present)
- Influence of mass media and globalization
- Recording
- Film
- Radio
- TV