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Accentuation in Qur'ānic Chant: A Study in Musical Tawāzun

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Lois Ibsen al Faruqi
Lois Ibsen al Faruqi*
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Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Despite the importance of the scripture to any study of Islamic beliefs, customs or creations, little attention has been paid by musicologists and ethnomusicologists to the chanted recitation of the Holy Qur'ān. Muslim scholars of literature, of etymology, of grammar and syntax, of phonetics and vocal production have developed exhaustive studies based on the Qur'ān, but they have neither analyzed nor explained the musical aspects of the chanted recitations of the one hundred and fourteen sūrahs ('chapters') revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 10 , 1978 , pp. 53 - 68
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Copyright © 1979 By the International Folk Music Council 

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