Muslim Musical History
Dr. Filip Holm, a Swedish scholar of Religion, not a religious scholar, gives a profound history of music in Muslim culture. Utilizing the writings of Ibn Sina, al-Farabi, al-Ghazali, al-Kindi and others, Mr. Holm demonstrates the role music and music theory had in the development of Islamic education, philosophy and spiritualism dating back to the times of our Beloved Prophet (pboh).
“Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.”
Rather than speculate about music or repeat the rhetoric of piety that is the currency of our ‘holier than thou’ community members, click on the video below.