In contrast to many books on Islam that focus on political rhetoric and activism, this book
explores Islam's extraordinarily rich cultural and artistic diversity, showing how sound, music …

Since its birth and rapid spread over 14 centuries ago, the Islamicate world has comprised
dozens of societies and hundreds of cultures and communities that today encompass nearly …

Ever since the time of the earliest theology that has been preserved for us, Muslim
theologians have had opinions on music. This is in no way strange. Theologians of all …

This updated reissue of Mark LeVine's acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub-and
countercultural music in the Middle East brings this groundbreaking portrait of the region's …

You are what you hear, not what you say. This personal reflection explores how listening to
music in the post 9/11 context enabled me to negotiate ideas of diasporic Muslim identity …

The dawn of the colonization of Afro-Asian world in general and the Muslim world in
particular brought in its wake efforts by the western academia to justify colonization in a …

This series will explore vital themes in the civilisations of Islam–including the nature of
religious authority, ethics and law, social justice and civil society, the arts and sciences, and …

artistic developments in the muslim cultural sphere: ethics, aesthetics, and the performing
arts green pop, clean cinema, halal songs, Islamic soaps, Muslim rap and hip-hop, Islamist …

Jonas Otterbeck's chapter pre sents the complex relation of Sunni Islamic discourse to the
practice of music making and listening. The chapter illustrates how a multitude of voices …

In recent years, growing attention has been paid to the musical components of the
transnational Africana diaspora in relationship to political consciousness. Often lost or …