Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-421) and index.
Introduction : music, sound, and architecture in Islam / Michael Frishkopf and Federico Spinetti -- pt. 1. Transregional -- Listening to islamic gardens and landscapes / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- pt. 2. The Ottoman empire and Turkey -- A sound status among the Ottoman elite : architectural patrons of sixteenth-century Istanbul mosques and their recitation programs / Nina Ergin -- A concert platform : a space for a style in Turkish music / John Morgan O'Connell -- Articulating otherness in the construction of Alevi-Bektasi rituals and ritual space in a transnational perspective / Irene Markoff -- pt. 3. The Arab world -- Venerating Cairo's saints through monument and ritual : Islamic reform and the rise of the architext / Michael Frishkopf -- Nightingales and sweet basil : the cultural geography of aleppine song / Jonathan H. Shannon -- Aural geometry : poetry, music, and architecture in the Arabic tradition / Samer Akkach -- pt. 4. Andalusia and Europe -- Tents of silk and trees of light in the lands of Najd : the aural and the visual at a Mawlid celebration in the Alhambra / Cynthia Robinson -- Aristocratic residences and the Majlis in Umayyad Córdoba / Glaire D. Anderson -- Sounds of love and hate : Sufi rap, ghetto patrimony, and the concrete politics of the French urban periphery / Paul A. Silverstein -- pt. 5. Central and South Asia -- Ideal form and meaning in Sufi shrines of Pakistan : a return to the spirit / Kamil Khan Mumtaz -- The social and sacred microcosm of the Kiiz Üi : space and sound in rituals for the dead among the Kazakhs of Mongolia / Saida Daukeyeva -- pt. 6. Iran -- Listening to pictures in Iran / Anthony Welch -- Of mirrors and frames : music, sound, and architecture at the Iranian Zurkhaneh / Federico Spinetti.
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Bringing together the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, art history, and architecture, this edited collection investigates how sound production in built environments is central to Muslim religious and cultural expression.
Architecture-- Islamic countries-- History and criticism.
Art and architecture-- Islamic countries.
Islamic architecture-- History and criticism.
Music and architecture-- Islamic countries.
Music-- Islamic countries-- History and criticism.