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At least according to one scholar, Jacob M. Landau, not only is secular and folk music found in regions throughout the Muslim world, but Islam has its own distinctive category of music -- the "Islamic music" or the "classical Islamic music" — that began development "with the advent of Islam about 610 CE" as a "new art". [40]
Sunni Islam [a] (/ ˈ s uː n i /; Arabic: أهل السنة, romanized: Ahl as-Sunnah, lit. 'The People of the Sunnah') is the largest denomination of Islam , followed by 87–90% of the world's Muslims , and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Islamic music may refer to religious music, as performed in Islamic public services or private devotions, or more generally to musical traditions of the Muslim world. The heartland of Islam is the Middle East , North Africa , the Horn of Africa , Balkans , and West Africa , Iran , Central Asia , and South Asia .
A nasheed (Arabic: نَشِيد, romanized: nashīd, lit. 'chant', pl. أَنَاشِيد, anāshīd) is a work of vocal music, partially coincident with hymns, that is either sung a cappella or with instruments, according to a particular style or tradition within Sunni Islam.
According to classical Islamic theories, [3] the sunnah is primarily documented by hadith—which are the verbally-transmitted record of the teachings, actions, deeds, sayings, and silent approvals or disapprovals attributed to Muhammad—and alongside the Quran (the book of Islam) are the divine revelation delivered through Muhammad [3] that ...
The Great History by Muhammad al-Bukhari (d.870 AD) Fath al-Buldan by Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri (d.892 AD) Genealogies of the Nobles (book) by Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri (d.892 AD) Tarikh at-Tabari by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d.923 AD) Tarikh E Masoodi by Al-Masudi (d.956 AD) Works of Ahmad ibn Fadlan (d.960 AD)
The nine volumes of Sahih Al-Bukhari, one of the six Sunni hadith books. Sunni Islam, or Sunnism, is the name for the largest denomination in Islam. [320] [321] [322] The term is a contraction of the phrase "ahl as-sunna wa'l-jamaat", which means "people of the sunna (the traditions of Muhammad) and the community". [323]
Hizb ut-Tahrir (Arabic: حزب التحرير) (Translation: Party of Liberation) is an international, pan-Islamist political organization which describes its ideology as Islam, and its aim the re-establishment of the Islamic Khilafah to resume Islamic ways of life in the Muslim world.