Pre-Islamic sources and Islamicate music

• Source: pre-Islamic Arabian features that remained at core of Islamic culture, carried by Islam though not strictly speaking part of it...
  • 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
• Influence: the impact of Islamic ritual performance (especially "language performance") upon music
  • Quranic recitation, its rules and regulations, and its program of training (kuttab)
  • Traditional genres of poetic performance, e.g. inshad
  • Sufi orders and their liturgies (hadra)