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AllMusic. [1] A is for Allah is the name of a double album created for Muslim children by Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens). The album was released on 11 July 2000 by Resurgence UK Records. The title song was written in 1980 upon the birth of Yusuf's first child, a girl named Hasanah. [2] Yusuf wanted his daughter to learn the Arabic ...
The song is a standard of Arabic and Middle Eastern musical repertoires. Versions of the song have been recorded by artists including Fairuz, [5] Sabah Fakhri, [5] Souad Massi, Lena Chamamyan, Nabyla Maan, Hamza El Din, Sami Yusuf, Abeer Nehme [6] and Talia Lahoud.
Abeer Nehme (Arabic: عبير نعمة; born 19 May 1980) is a Lebanese singer and a musicologist. [1] She performs traditional Tarab music, Lebanese traditional music, Rahbani music, and sacred music from the Maronite, Syriac Orthodox, and Byzantine traditions.
t. e. 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.
Music of Jordan. The traditional music of Jordan has a long history. Rural zajal songs, with improvised poetry played with a mijwiz, tablah, arghul, oud, rabab, and reed pipe ensemble accompanying is popular. The transition of old cultural music into hit pop songs known worldwide. Recently, Jordan has seen the rise of prominent DJs and pop stars.
Zahrat al-Mada'en (Arabic: زهرة المدائن, Flower of the Cities, marketed under its French title La Fleur des Cités) is a 1967 Arabic song performed by Lebanese singer Fairuz, composed by the Rahbani brothers and written by Said Akl. A somber musical response to the Naksa, [ note 2 ][ 2 ] its lyrics extol the city of Jerusalem, [ 2 ...
Salil al-Sawarim (Arabic: صليل الصوارم, romanized: Ṣalīl aṣ-Ṣawārim, "Clashing of the swords") is a nasheed (chant) produced by the Islamic State in 2014 and used in Islamic State propaganda and beheading videos and as a theme.
Qudud Halabiya. The Qudud Al-Halabiya (Arabic: قدود حلبية, romanized: Qudūd Ḥalabīya, literally "musical measures of Aleppo ") are traditional Syrian songs combining lyrics in Classical Arabic based on the poetry of Al-Andalus, particularly that in muwashshah form, with old religious melodies collected mainly by Aleppine musicians. [1]