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Historically, Islamic art and music flourished during the Islamic Golden Age, [11] [12] [13] yet it continued to flourish until the 19th century in the Ottoman, Safavi, and Mughal Empires. Ottoman music in particular developed into a diverse form of art music. It influenced Western composers of the Classical period.
1345: In the Samudra Pasai Empire, Malik al Tahir II dies and is succeeded by Tahir III. His rule lasts throughout the 14th century. In Bengal, llyas captures East Bengal, and under him Bengal is again united. He establishes his capital at Gaur. 1346: In the Chagatai Khanate, Kazan is deposed by Hayan Kuli.
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 .
The 14th-century historian Ibn Khaldūn called The Book of Songs the register of the Arabs: "It comprises all that they had achieved in past of excellence in every kind of poetry, history, music, etc. So far as I am aware, no other book can be put on a level with it in this respect.
The designation maqam appeared for the first time in the treatises written in the fourteenth century by al-Sheikh al-Safadi and Abdulqadir al-Maraghi, and has since been used as a technical term in Arabic music. The maqam is a modal structure that characterizes the art of music of countries in North Africa, the Near East and Central Asia. Three ...
1st half of 14th century] Liber de musica [88] Petrus frater dictus Palma ociosa: fl. early 14th century Compendium de discantu mensurabili [89] Johannes de Grocheio: fl. 1300 French Ars musicae: Manuel Bryennius: 14th century Byzantine Harmonika [90] Walter Odington: died 1330 English Johannes de Muris: c. 1290 – after 1344 French Marchetto ...
The metaphor of a golden age began to be applied in 19th-century literature about Islamic history, in the context of the western aesthetic fashion known as Orientalism.The author of a Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine in 1868 observed that the most beautiful mosques of Damascus were "like Mohammedanism itself, now rapidly decaying" and relics of "the golden age of Islam".
This timeline of Islamic history relates the Gregorian and Islamic calendars in the history of Islam. This timeline starts with the lifetime of Muhammad, which is believed by non-Muslims to be when Islam started, [ 1 ] though not by Muslims .