Why Does the Islamic World Have Music? Doesn't Islam Forbid Music?

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Sources:
Islam and Music: The Legal and Spiritual Dimensions, Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.

Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study, Shiloah, Amnon.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995.

Philosophies of Music in Medieval Islam, Fadlou Shehadi

The Modal System of pre-Dastgāh music, Arya Kabiri

The Modal System of Arabian and Persian Music, 1250 - 1500: An interpretation of Contemporary Texts, Owen Wright

Music Theory in the Safavid Era: The Taqsim-al-Nagāmat, Owen Wright

Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright, multiple authors

Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature by J. W. Wright and Everett K. Rowson

What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic, Shahab Ahmed

00:00 Intro
01:20 Disclaimers
05:57 There is music in MENA. Period.
13:51 Anti-music sentiment in Islam
17:27 Understanding Islamic theology
26:08 There are degrees of sin
36:34 The inevitability of sin
39:46 Not all Muslims are devout Muslims
46:50 MENA is more than Islam
53:26 Islam isn't barbaric, nor progressive