What do Bruce Springsteen, Mahalia Jackson, and John Coltrane all have in common? Well according to Dr. Hussein Rashid of Hofstra University each bear witness to the Islamic Contribution to American ...

TO meet one of the most mysterious and intriguing stars in the pop pantheon, I recently travelled to a run-down building off the Holloway Road in north London. Asked to remove my shoes, I padded down ...

If you saw him on the street, you might mistake him for a member of One Direction with his hair and his style — but his name is Harris J. The 18-year-old British singer scored a deal with Awakening ...

I was reading your fatwas about music and to some extent I agree with what you say and consequently I've stopped listening to music and replaced it with listening to Qur'an or Islamic lectures.

Abbasuddin Ahmed had taken part in singing Urdu qawwalis that described the richness of Islamic history and the love of ...

The Egyptian entrepreneur Ahmed Abu Haiba isn’t having a good day. A Saudi columnist has accused him of corrupting the country’s youth. A music video he has been working on for months is behind ...

Vol. 45, No. 2, Traditional Music and Composition: For György Ligeti on his 80th Birthday (2003), pp. 39-52 (14 pages) The article addresses the problems of national identity embedded in the musical ...

In August, the ministry overseeing primary education issued a circular announcing the recruitment of music teachers -- a ...