Pre-Islamic sources and Islamicate music

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  • 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