Madih nabawi
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Madih nabawi (
Sufi genre of belletristic Arab literature.[1]
Description and subgenres
A typical performance includes a
maqam al-iraqi.[2]
According to the article about Islamic religious music in the New Grove Dictionary of Music, "Northern Sudan has a famous madih tradition, going back to Hajj El-Mahi of Kassinger (c 1780–1870), who composed about 330 religious poems of which handwritten copies survive. They are performed by pairs of male singers with the accompaniment of two frame drums (ṭār), at religious festivities, at markets or outside mosques."[3]
Musical genres or subgenres in the madih repertoire include tanzilah ("revelation"), ibtihal ("supplication"), tawassul ("beseechment"), tawshih, and muwashshah.[4]
Further reading
- Al-Mallah, Majd, Madih Nabawi, in Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God (2 vols.), Edited by C. Fitzpatrick and A. Walker, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2014. ISBN 1610691776
See also
- Durood
- Haḍra
- Hamd
- Mawlid
- Mawsim
- Mehfil
- Na'at
- Nasheed
- Arabic music
- Islamic music
- Islamic poetry
- Sufi music
- Sufi poetry
- Sufism
- Ya Muhammad
References
- ^ Touma (1996), p. 161
- ^ Touma (1996), p. 159
- ^ Neubauer and Doubleday, 2001
- ^ Touma (1996), p. 162
Sources
- Neubauer, Eckhardt; Doubleday, Veronica (2001). "Islamic religious music". Grove Music online. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2021-04-12.
- ISBN 0-931340-88-8.
