Why Does the Islamic World Have So Much Music? Doesn't Islam Forbid Music?

dna-based lifeform says words for an hour.gif Sources: Islam and Music: The Legal and Spiritual Dimensions, Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study, Shiloah, Amnon. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. Philosophies of Music in Medieval Islam, Fadlou Shehadi The Modal System of pre-Dastgāh music, Arya Kabiri The Modal System of Arabian and Persian Music, 1250 - 1500: An interpretation of Contemporary Texts, Owen Wright Music Theory in the Safavid Era: The Taqsim-al-Nagāmat, Owen Wright Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright, multiple authors Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature by J. W. Wright and Everett K. Rowson What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic, Shahab Ahmed 00:00 Intro 01:20 Disclaimers 05:57 There is music in MENA. Period. 13:51 Anti-music sentiment in Islam 17:27 Understanding Islamic theology 26:08 There are degrees of sin 36:34 The inevitability of sin 39:46 Not all Muslims are devout Muslims 46:50 MENA is more than Islam 53:26 Islam isn't barbaric, nor progressive