Medieval+Islamic+Culture

__﻿Medieval Islamic Music :__
====Music in Islam has always been one of the controverial issues in the Muslim world. All muslim scholars have always accepted and encouraged chanting know as the call to prayer. The Qur'an which is the Islamic Holy Book, that states that of other forms of music has been problematic. The reason why music is looked upon in the muslim religion as being lower and less important is because in Muslim beliefs the religion of Islam must prosper and nothing else mattered. Although the Qu'ran neither contained nor mentioned specifically any words against music it was not a bad or good thing it's not important enough to be either one. The purists of Islam began to collect sayings of the prophet Muhammed which supposedly controdicted listening and singing to music. ==== __**Mizar-Daf **__ Islamic music requires a Mizar-Daf, a type of popular instrument called a tamborine. The tamborine consists of round wooden frame, covered on one side with tight fitting goat or fish skin.The sounds of this percussion instrument set the rhythm of the music, particulary in the religious performances of Islamic classic styles of religious music.