What do Bruce Springsteen, Mahalia Jackson, and John Coltrane all have in common? Well according to Dr. Hussein Rashid of Hofstra University each bear witness to the Islamic Contribution to American ...

At a time of political rhetoric over Islam in America, a multi-cultural group of European musicians has been touring the U.S. playing sacred Islamic songs. The tour ends Thursday in Stockton with a ...

Flames burst from the stage for a grand entrance, and fake fog swirls around a young man in a white robe. He clutches the microphone, gazes seriously into the camera and then, accompanied only by ...

Strengthening the place that contemporary Arabic classical music holds in Arab identity, Qatar Foundation is launching a new platform ...

Music in its most basic form—vocalization—saturates Islamic society: the muezzin’s call to Friday prayer and the melodious recitation of the Quran are experiences with musical as well as devotional ...

Presented in cooperation with Sacred Songs, Sacred Sites, musicians Jamuna Murali, Raja Rajeshwari Bhat, and Ali Durrani will showcase and detail the nuances and intricacies of two traditions of ...

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Two decades ago, when the Taliban was first ousted from Afghanistan, Ahmad Sarmast departed from home in Melbourne, Australia, and set out to revive music, which the Taliban had banned, in his country ...

Collected by music researcher and scholar, Houshang Javid, the album features a collection of works performed by various veteran Iranian artists. Manaqib-Khani is a form of Iranian Islamic music that ...

A FEAST of acts from across the globe will be in Oxford tomorrow to showcase the very best of Islamic music. The seventh annual Muslim Festival gets under way from 4pm at the Jacqueline du Pré Music ...

Islamist militants have stepped up their game when it comes to the music and visuals in their videos. NPR's Arun Rath talks to scholar Peter Neumann about today's tech-savvy jihadists. This is WEEKEND ...