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Sources:
Islam and Music: The Legal and Spiritual Dimensions, Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study, Shiloah, Amnon.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995.
Philosophies of Music in Medieval Islam, Fadlou Shehadi
The Modal System of pre-Dastgāh music, Arya Kabiri
The Modal System of Arabian and Persian Music, 1250 - 1500: An interpretation of Contemporary Texts, Owen Wright
Music Theory in the Safavid Era: The Taqsim-al-Nagāmat, Owen Wright
Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright, multiple authors
Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature by J. W. Wright and Everett K. Rowson
What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic, Shahab Ahmed
00:00 Intro
01:20 Disclaimers
05:57 There is music in MENA. Period.
13:51 Anti-music sentiment in Islam
17:27 Understanding Islamic theology
26:08 There are *degrees* of sin
36:34 The inevitability of sin
39:46 Not all Muslims are devout Muslims
46:50 MENA is more than Islam
53:26 Islam isn't barbaric, nor progressive