Musical Instruments in Samāʿ Literature
Al-Udfuwī’s Kitāb al-Imtāʿ bi-aḥkām as-samāʿ
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14594590 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yaron Klein (Carleton College Northfield, MN United States, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 14-37 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oriens (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0078-6527 • E-ISSN: 1877-8372 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18778372-12340022 |
| OpenAlex | W4327927874 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Samāʿ literature reveals a tension in premodern Islamicate societies. While musical practices were ubiquitous and practiced in many contexts, Islamic legal tradition regarded them with suspicion. Musical instruments occupied a central place in these discussions, perhaps, because as physical objects associated with what is otherwise in the non-tangible domain of sound they were seen as the quintessential manifestation of music. Udfuwī’s Imtāʿ is one of the most comprehensive works in the genre, and its chapter on instruments is unique in both the length and place it ascribes to percussion instruments. Udfuwī argues for their permissibility and stresses their social importance throughout history
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Islam · Literature · Musical · Percussion · Physics · Sociology · Visual arts · Families in Therapy and Culture · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Islamic Studies and History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |