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  2. Radif - Wikipedia

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    Radif. In Persian, Turkic, and Urdu ghazals, the radīf (from Arabic رديف; Persian: ردیف; Azerbaijani: rədif; Turkish: redif; Urdu: ردیف; Uzbek: radif) is the word which must end each line of the first couplet and the second line of all the following couplets. [ a] It is preceded by a qafiya, which is the actual rhyme of the ghazal ...

  3. Islam and music - Wikipedia

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    ISSN 1825-621X. Since the birth of Islam the permissibility of music and singing has been debated. Not only the lawfulness of the performer but also of the audience was discussed. Advocates and opponents alike traced the legitimacy of their position back to the Quran and the hadiths, the sayings of the Prophet.

  4. Oud - Wikipedia

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    The oud ( Arabic: عود, romanized : ʿūd, pronounced [ʕuːd]; [ 1][ 2][ 3]) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute -type, pear -shaped, fretless stringed instrument [ 4] (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments ), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 ...

  5. Ahmad - Wikipedia

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    Ahmad. Ahmad ibn Hanbal, (780–855) was an Arab Muslim jurist, theologian, ascetic, hadith traditionist, and founder of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence. Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Ali al-Hashimi, was an Abbasid provincial governor who was active in the late eighth century.

  6. Salah - Wikipedia

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    Islam. Salah ( Arabic: ٱلصَّلَاةُ, romanized : aṣ-Ṣalāh) is the principal form of worship in Islam. Facing Mecca, it consists of units called rak'ah (specific set of movements), during which the Quran is recited, and prayers from the Sunnah are typically said. The number of rak'ah varies from prayer to prayer.

  7. Islamic music - Wikipedia

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    The word "music" in Arabic, the language of Islam, (mūsīqā موسيقى) is defined more narrowly than in English or some other languages, and "its concept" was at least originally "reserved for secular art music; separate names and concepts belonged to folk songs and to religious chants". [1]

  8. Sufi music - Wikipedia

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    Sufi music refers to the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets like Rumi, Hafiz, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow, and Khwaja Ghulam Farid . Qawwali is the best-known form of Sufi music and is most commonly found in the Sufi culture in South Asia. However, music is also central to the Sema ceremony of the whirling ...

  9. Arabic music - Wikipedia

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    Arabic music ( Arabic: الموسيقى العربية, romanized : al-mūsīqā al-ʿarabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres. Arabic countries have many rich and varied styles of music and also many linguistic dialects, with each country and region having their own traditional music .