The history of Arab music (Touma)

• Pre-Islamic Arabia (Jahiliyya) of 6th century.
  • Bedouin song (huda', nasb)
  • Urban song of qayna (sinad, hazaj)
• Early Arabian school, in Medina, Damascus
  • Multiple influences of Islam: as moral system, as civilizational catalyst
  • Rise of al-ghina' al-mutqan (perfect singing)
  • Rise of Medina as musical center
  • mukhannathun, esp. Tuways (632-710)
  • multicultural influences in Arabia
• New music of Baghdad
  • Persian influence
  • Traditionalists: Ishaq al-Mawsili (767-850), student Ziryab.
  • Modernists: Ibrahim al-Mahdi (779-839)
  • Treatises. Translation movement, music theory (al-Farabi), history (Isfahani)
• Music of Andalusia
  • Ziryab to Cordoba (822)
  • Transfer to North African art musics (Ala, nawba, san`a, ma'luf)
• Decline of Arab music: 13th to 19th c