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Introduction
Arab
music: history and evolution
by
Ali Jihad Racy and Jack
Logan, Professor of Music at San Diego State University
(classicalarabicmusic.com) Arab
musical life throughout history
by Habib Hassan Touma
(extracts from The Music of
the Arabs, 1996)
Arab
music - Wikipedia
The
Story of Arabic Music
by Wafaa' Salman
(al-Wafaa News, Spring, 1993)
Music
samples
(classicalarabicmusic.com) Musical instruments
al-Bab's guide
The
Arabic Music Page
This grew of out a Usenet discussion group (rec.music.arabic). Visually,
it's still rather
basic, but with a wealth of information.
Solo improvisation (taqasim) in
Arab music
by Scott Marcus of the University of California, Santa Barbara (Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin, July 1993)
Historical and
contemporary recordings of Middle Eastern music in the United States
by Anne K. Rasmussen (Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin, December 1997)
Music and Islam
"Music is a useless activity which, in fact,
is a state of passiveness"
The legitimacy of music is much debated in Islam. Although religious
chanting is accepted and even encouraged, there are questions about other forms of music,
especially instrumental music. The following articles illustrate the arguments:
Music and singing in
the light of
the Qur'an and Sunnah
An online book by Abu Bilal Mustafa al-Kanadi
A
topic of dispute in Islam: music
By Mustafa Sabri Music
and religion
Oman Centre for Traditional Music
Some examples of religious "natural"
(unaccompanied) music:
Adhan
The call to prayer.
Complete
recitation of the Qur'an
By Shaikh abd ur-Rahman as-Sudais and Shaikh Su'ood as-Shuraim
The
sounds of Islam
Complete recitations of the Qur'an by 271 different reciters
The Qur'an recited
An article about the recitation of the Qur'an by Prof Mahmoud Ayoub of Temple University (Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin) Islamic
music
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