Description
Book SynopsisBy examining Muslim attitudes toward the Qur'an, the institutions that regulate its recitation, and performer-audience expectations and interaction, Kristina Nelson, a trained Arabist and musicologist, casts new light on the significance of Qur'anic recit
Table of Contents
- Transcription Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Text: The Qurʾan
- History of the Revelation and Compilation of the Written Text
- Nature of the Text
- External Form of the Text
- Content, Language, and Style
- 2. Tajwīd
- Introduction
- Material of Tajwīd
- Sound of Tajwīd
- 3. The Samāʿ Polemic
- 4. The Ideal Recitation of the Qurʾan
- 5. The Sound of Qurʾanic Recitation
- Introduction
- Murattal
- Mujawwad
- 6. Maintaining the Ideal Recitation of the Qurʾan
- 7. Overlap and Separation: The Dynamics of Perception and Response
- Introduction
- The Overlap of Music and Recitation
- The Separation of Music and Recitation
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Consultants
- Appendix B. The Seven Aḥruf and the Qirāʾāt
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
