Wasn't sure to ask this in /mu/ or Veeky Forums but can anyone tell me about Islamic music?
I know depictions of people are banned in Islamic art so we get mosques decorated with geometric art like pic related, but what about the music? What musical traditions have been allowed or encouraged in Islam?
Post examples plz. And let's try to keep /pol/ to a minimum.
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Well, just consider that when you're holding a guitar, you're basically holding an arab instrument.
Middle-eastern music comes in one variety: mischievious.
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Well, since the Rababa is the mother of music instruments and the oud is guitars origin. And the Arabs are the best at poetry because arabic is very rich. So the Islamic golden age gave alot to music calture that inspired the french and italian music. Look up 'Lama bada yatathana' for example. And listen to Um Kaltom and Sabah Fakhri, Firouz, Abdul Haleem, Wade Safi, and many more. That will give you an idea
not only did guitars come from the oud, the english word lute literally comes from oud (العود, or al-'ud)
Sunnis don't like fun and have banned instruments, so all that is allowed is Nasheeds, which is singing, and drums.
Of course this is a modern idea, Muslims invented guitars, there's nothing in the scripture against Music, and the voice is surely an instrument? Likewise the majority of the Islamic world listens to modern music too.
>What musical traditions have been allowed or encouraged in Islam?
Dank nasheeds
If you're looking for "Islamic music", I think you'd be interested in the art of Qawali. It's a form of spiritual devotion to Allah, and practiced mainly by the Sufi sect of Islam. When Islam spread to the Indian subcontinent, poets and musicians started to incorporate traditional Hindu styles of devotion through music but instead of devoting their songs to Krishna or Vishnu, it was now Allah and Muhammad. The Indian/Pakistani form of Qawwali we see today is very similar to how the early qawwals would have practiced, Amir Khusrow being the unofficial founder of such practice.
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cat stevens converted to islam because of how emotionally overwhelming he found the muslim call to prayer.
>Islamic music
By that you mean Music with Islamic meaning or simply music made by Muslims?
I'm guessing the former. A Muslim could make a rock song if he wanted to and you wouldn't classify that as Islamic music
Nice carpathian music
bretty cool
Specifically Islamic music. Christians have choirs and hymns, what do Muslims have?
>MFW it's an Islam thinks it can compare thread
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Dramatic ululating and carefully timed explosions.
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More like Persian.
This.
I'm am not here to argue which is better. I an just showing a video. No need to be pompous.
Take this video as an olive branch to you.
what type of music is this?
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Iran is still middle east ya know
Near Eastern, sure.
Klezmer
>posting shit-tier European chants instead of goat georgian chants
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I think there is something innate about musical preference. When I listen to Eastern Orthodox music, even though I cant understand the words it doesn't feel 'foreign' to me whereas the Islamic music feels alien in some way. 'Christian' music is not limited to medieval/renaissance vocal music either, Beethoven and the entire Western Art Music Canon is still Christian music.
But it ain't an Arab instrument
suuni khaleeji
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sufi turkey
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shia iran
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there is nasheed music( christian and Buddhist equivalent of chanting ) but it will just pop your mystic foreign culture music sense pretty fast
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I love the word "ululating" so much.
>georgian chants
>georgian
I'm an American but grew up in the UAE. It really depended on the muezzin of the mosque, luckily the ones next to my apartment had good voices.
In Abu Dhabi there was a mosque next to a catholic church and it wasn't coordinated but sometimes the prayer call and the bells where done in rhythm almost.
Similar to this;
There is such a deeply rooted musical traditon in Islam that I dont know where to start, even with the Fun Nazis (sunnis) banning instruments in religious music. Seriously though, i recommend listening to all the songs that i cared enough to compile her if youre interested in this musical tradition.
Şem-i Ruhuna Cismimi Pervane düşürdüm, a Turkish Sufi song. The title means "My body is a moth drawn to the flame of your spirit"
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Tekbir (allahu akbar la ilaha ilallah) and then a devotional piece (Allahumme salli ala seyyidina muhammadini nebiyyil ummiyi we ala alihi ve sahbihi ve selim)
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Samai bayati, a composition.
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This ones not religious but its over a millenium old, and its pretty popular to have survived that long, the title, Fug An Nakhil, means "above the palm trees"
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This one is about as old and even more popular, an user mentioned it in this thread, Lama Bada Yatathana, and there are endless versions of it:
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...but this ones my favorite version
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And there's some other good ones, like the Ottoman composer Dmitri Cantemir, that Turkish folk song Üsküdara Gideriken, Sheikh Hamza Shakkur, Gar Kunam Sahibe Man (an Afghan song), but i honestly am too lazy to put those here.
Some nice music from Cairo to tie it off:
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>when youre trying to get a taxi but the prayer call just went off
>elastic hearts
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>Islamic music
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here's some ottoman music, it's not religious in nature but it's pretty [fire emoji] in my opinion です。
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