Comments on: Islam, Music, and Splitting Hairs http://www.microkhan.com/2009/04/02/islam-music-and-splitting-hairs/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:15:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brendan I. Koerner http://www.microkhan.com/2009/04/02/islam-music-and-splitting-hairs/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Brendan I. Koerner Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:21:09 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=744#comment-278 @Gramsci: Excellent point re: the muezzins. Maybe instrumentation is where the diehards draw the line (to say nothing of secular subject matter). I do love the Friday call to prayers at the mosque on 116th Street and Lenox. It seems sorta out-of-place amidst the surrounding commerce (e.g. a CVS, a Fine Fare supermarket). Which, in some ways, makes it all the more beautiful. @Gramsci: Excellent point re: the muezzins. Maybe instrumentation is where the diehards draw the line (to say nothing of secular subject matter).

I do love the Friday call to prayers at the mosque on 116th Street and Lenox. It seems sorta out-of-place amidst the surrounding commerce (e.g. a CVS, a Fine Fare supermarket). Which, in some ways, makes it all the more beautiful.

]]> By: Gramsci http://www.microkhan.com/2009/04/02/islam-music-and-splitting-hairs/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Gramsci Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:23:16 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=744#comment-277 I believe Edward Said had some interesting things to say about music and Muslim culture. I have to find that piece... I think part of the theological issue is that the Quran itself, unlike the New Testament for example, is taken as divinely musical (listen to the famous muezzins calling people to prayer-- you're not supposed to do that in a pastoral monotone). I agree with the latter interpretation, especially because music is as abstract and anti-idolatrous as the geometric figures that are the lifeblood of Islamic art. I believe Edward Said had some interesting things to say about music and Muslim culture. I have to find that piece…
I think part of the theological issue is that the Quran itself, unlike the New Testament for example, is taken as divinely musical (listen to the famous muezzins calling people to prayer– you’re not supposed to do that in a pastoral monotone). I agree with the latter interpretation, especially because music is as abstract and anti-idolatrous as the geometric figures that are the lifeblood of Islamic art.

]]> By: Brendan I. Koerner http://www.microkhan.com/2009/04/02/islam-music-and-splitting-hairs/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Brendan I. Koerner Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:14:41 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=744#comment-273 Amen. Amen.

]]> By: Jordan http://www.microkhan.com/2009/04/02/islam-music-and-splitting-hairs/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Jordan Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:01:42 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=744#comment-272 They'll take my iPod and Aviation gin from my cold, dead hands. They’ll take my iPod and Aviation gin from my cold, dead hands.

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