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The Prodigious Descendant of the Prophet: Şerif Muhiddin Targan, Modernization, Individualization, Virtuosity | An Interview with Bilen Işıktaş

By Namik Sinan Turan  //  January 29, 2020January 31, 2020

Namık Sinan Turan- Dear Bilen,  you are known as the most important authority on Şerif Muhiddin Targan in Turkey today due to your musical performance and academic research on the oud. Before talking about your…

Al Qamar Ensemble: The Heart-Routes of Islam and a Forgotten Qasidah

By Thalib Razi  //  October 17, 2019

It’s been over a year since the cold winter morning when I picked up my phone to the buzz of a WhatsApp call from an unfamiliar number. It was Brother Ismail Hachim, originally from the…

How Can a Text Free a Person? In Appreciation of the Qur’an’s Co-translators

By Timur R. Yuskaev  //  September 19, 2019November 24, 2019

Some ten years ago, in the summer of 2009, I heard a striking phrase. At the end of a lengthy conversation, after a long pause, my informal teacher, named Bilal, said, “You know, I was…

Does Palestine Need a Tarab Icon? A Short History of Mohammad ‘Assaf

By N.A. Mansour  //  August 22, 2019August 22, 2019

Does Palestine Need a Tarab Icon? A Short History of Mohammad ‘Assaf If the Palestinian people were to sit down to pick an anthem, a contender would certainly be Fairuz’s 1967 song Zahrat al-Mada’in, translated…

[Interview] Namik Sinan Turan: “Umm Kulthum is a Shared Cultural Symbol of Egypt and the Arab World”

By Ahmet Koroglu  //  May 9, 2018May 9, 2018

[Ahmet  Köroğlu] First off, how about we get to know you briefly? [Namık Sinan Turan] I was born in Tarabya, Istanbul in 1972. My entire life of learning happened in Istanbul. After studying Political Science and…

From The Archives: VIDEO – Hisham Aidi Discusses “Rebel Music” at George Mason University

By Maydan Editors  //  October 12, 2016October 14, 2016

This fascinating, timely, and important book on the connection between music and political activism among Muslim youth around the world looks at how hip-hop, jazz, and reggae, along with Andalusian and Gnawa music, have become…

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