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Examples of what is allowed include: vocals but not instruments; vocals but only if the audience is of the same sex; vocals and drums, or vocals and traditional one sided drum and tambourine, but no other instruments; any kind of music provided it is not passionate, sexually suggestive, or has lyrics in violation of Islamic principles.
Barrel drums, hourglass drums and large kettle drums known from pre-Islamic depictions probably disappeared from the Iranian Highlands after the 14th century. The barrel drum doholak survived in Balochistan , while all three drum types mentioned are widespread further east in India.
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 .
In conservative Sufi orders no instruments are used, or the daf (frame drum) only; other orders employ a range of instrumentation. The collective Sufi ritual is practiced under this name primarily in North Africa, the Middle-East, and Turkey, but also in some non-Arab Muslim countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia .
Also, there is a kind of square frame drum in the stonecutting of Taq-e Bostan (another famous monument located 5km northeast of Kermanshah city). These frame drums were played in the ancient Middle East, Greece, and Rome and reached medieval Europe through Islamic culture. Daf depicted in middle Assyrian empire relief 1392 BC–934 BC
The bedug is commonly used in mosques in Java among Javanese and Sundanese people to precede the adhan as a sign of the prayer [5] or during Islamic festivals. [2] For example, the sound of a bedug is used to signal the end of the day-long fast during Ramadan and sometimes it is used to signal time for Suhoor during Ramadan. [ 6 ]
A frame drum used in Sufi (mystic) music of Sistan-Baluchestan and other parts of southern Iran . Shaghf A frame drum. Shahin-Tabbal: shahin-tabl: Pipe and tabor. shāhin (شاهین) is a fife. ṭabl (فایف) is a drum. The two were allowed to be played together (with reservations as an old/pre-Islamic combination). [8]
The article presents wrong and partially correct detailed which can blindside Muslims and interested parties. Please remove or update this article with correct information. Music and Dancing is not allowed as is considered as an act of sin. Only two or three types of sounds are allowed which are matters of issue till date.