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  2. Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe - Wikipedia

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    A Christian and a Muslim playing chess, illustration from the Book of Games of Alfonso X (c. 1285). [1]During the High Middle Ages, the Islamic world was an important contributor to the global cultural scene, innovating and supplying information and ideas to Europe, via Al-Andalus, Sicily and the Crusader kingdoms in the Levant.

  3. Islamic music - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Category:Music of the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    Music of the people who lived under the rule of Islam during the Middle Ages, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity or language. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.

  5. Islam and music - Wikipedia

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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]

  6. Medieval music - Wikipedia

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    Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period.

  7. Andalusi classical music - Wikipedia

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    Although the philosopher al-Kindī (d. 259/874) and the author Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī (d. 355/967) both mention music writing systems, they were descriptive and based on lute fingerings, and thus complicated to use. No practical, indigenous system of music writing existed in the Islamic world before the colonial era.

  8. Category:Musicians of the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

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    Musicians who lived under the rule of Islam during the Middle Ages, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity or language. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

  9. Arabic music - Wikipedia

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    Most historians agree that there existed distinct forms of music in the Arabian peninsula in the pre-Islamic period between the 5th and 7th century AD. Arab poets of that time—called shu`ara' al-Jahiliyah ( Arabic : شعراء الجاهلية) or "Jahili poets", meaning "the poets of the period of ignorance"—used to recite poems with a ...