On Nov 21, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > One explanation is that in Early Islam music was strictly proscribed,
Do you mean to say that all music was banned? I don't think this would be correct, or indeed even possible given the lack of central authority over Islamic religious questions. See, e.g., for what they're worth: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/295642/Islamic-arts http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/mysticalpathwaynurhu/ > Various lutes were played for millenia in the Mediterranean basin So Chris Wilkes still has a long way to go. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
