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it represents melismatic techniques, special arabesques, and preferential
musical modes.

Notes

1. These ideas are masterfully developed in A. Shiloah, The Epistle on Music of Ikhwān
   al-Safā (Tel-Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 1978).


2. See A. Shiloah, “Music and Religion in Islam,” Acta Musicologica 69, no. 2 (1997):
   15–28.


3. Abu al-Faraj Al-Isfahānī, Kitāb al-Aghāni, 24 vols. (Cairo: D(ah)r al-kutub al-
   mi(s1)riyya, c. 1929), 3:116–17.


4. Ch. Pellat, “Sur quelques femmes hostiles au prophète,” in Vie du Prophète Ma-
   homet, colloquium (Strasbourg, 1980), 77–86.


5. Ibid., 83


6. Higinio Anglés, “La musique juive dans l’Espagne médiévale,” Yuval: Studies of the
   Jewish Research Centre 1 (1968): 48–64.


7. Ibid., 48.


8. Ibid., 53.


9. Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Maqqar(ih), Nafh al-tīb, ed. Ihsān ̔Abbās (Beirut,
   1968), 3:122–23.


10. Ibn Sa ̔id al-Maghribī, al-Mughrib fi hula al-Maghrib, ed. Shawqī Dayf (Cairo,
    1953), 1:128–29.


11. Benjamin M. Liu and James T. Monroe, Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the
    Modern Oral Tradition: Music and Texts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989),


12. 
    


13. Ibn Bassām, al-Dhakhīra, ed. Ihsān ̔Abbās (Beirut: Dār al-Thaq(ah)fa, 1975),
    4:1:126–36.


14. E. Levi-Provençal, Islam d’Occident (Paris: Librairie orientale et Americaine,
    1948), 119–20.


15. Alexis Chottin, Tableau de la musique Marocaine (Paris: Geuthner, 1939), 149–53.


16. Eugène Delacroix, Journal d’Eugène Delacroix (Paris: Plon, 1893), 215.


17. Dov Noy, ed., Jewish Folktales from Morocco (Jerusalem: bitfutzot ha-golah, 1964).


18. Laurence D. Loeb, “The Jewish Musician and the Music of Fars,” Asian Music 4, no.
    1 (1972): 3–14.


19. Alexander Christianowitsch, Esquisse historique de la musique arabe aux temps
    anciens, avec dessins d’instruments et 40 mélodies notées et harmonisées (Cologne: M.
    Dumont-Shauberg, 1863).


20. Ibid., 2.


21. Ibid., 5.


22. Sādeq al-Rizqī, al-aghānī al-tūnisiyya (Tunis: al-D(ah)r al-tunisiyya li’l nashr,
    1967).


23. Ibid., 16–17.