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Madih nabawi
Madih nabawi (, pl. Madā'ih nabawiyah), one of the principal religious genres of Arabic music, is a song form dedicated to expressing praises, love and devotion for the Islamic prophet Muhammad and
Description and subgenres#
A typical performance includes a solo singer, accompanied by a chorus of men with frame drums, the chorus singing a refrain which the soloist improvisationally answers through variation, paraphrasing, or transformation of the refrain, emphasising the characteristics of the respective maqam row or scale.. The chorus sings in unison and a new verse of poetry and prayers or blessings for the audience are added at certain places during the chorus. In North Africa, it resembles ma’luf or andalusi nubah, in Egypt the dur, in Syria the muwashshah, and in Iraq the maqam al-iraqi. 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.” Musical genres or subgenres in the madih repertoire include tanzilah (“revelation”), ibtihal (“supplication”), tawassul (“beseechment”), tawshih, and muwashshah.
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.
See also#
- Durood
- Haḍra
- Hamd
- Mawlid
- Mawsim
- Mehfil
- Na’at
- Nasheed
- Arabic music
- Islamic music
- Islamic poetry
- Sufi music
- Sufi poetry
- Sufism
- Ya Muhammad
External links#
- Madih.info with sound files
- Anasheed
- Mika2eel Madih
- www.aicpmadih.de Mit Live Radio Australien 2MFM + NAM Radio Libanon + Das Größte Islamische Anasheed Archiv Deutschland’s http://www.aicpmadih.de:
- www.madih.net - World wide Madih
- Genre family
- Islamic music, Sufi music