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As far as I know classical Islamic law does not frown on music and singing.  Even the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia permit it--there have been music radio stations there for decades and singing is an integral part of wedding celebrations and even mournings.

The banning of music is a latter day invention of Islamic fundamentalists, who necessarily have to retreat every time they try to outlaw music because it is so deeply entrenched in the culture.  They try to ban secular music because they see it as competition to recitation of the Koran.  These people have no sense of humor, nor of human nature.

This is one of the reasons these people are doomed to failure (albeit after leaving lots of tragedy in their wake)--they keep trying to impose laws that are totally antithetical to not just human nature, but to the cultures of the peoples they are trying to control.

There are few orchestras because western music is based on a completely different scale (probably the wrong term--I'm no musicologist).  Also, while people do love listening to Arab music, being an "artiste" as they say is not viewed as a respectable profession (think of how many people here over the decades have viewed jazz musicians).  If a child shows talent in drawing in the Arab world, people don't say, "Oh, he'll be an artisit," they say "Oh, he'll be an architect" (architecture being viewed as a respectable profession).

In any case, none of this prevented millions of people showing up for Um Kalthoum's funeral.  [/quote]
Wedding singing is one of the few permitted exceptions.  It does not permit accompaniment with instruments except the drum.

Your reasons for lack of orchestras in the Arab Gulf world doesn't make sense. No matter what musical scale they use (and they do use a different one), people play instruments and there are ways of playing together.  The lack of serious music scene in the Gulf countries has nothing to do with a different scale and everything to do with the fact that the religiously inspired environment bans institutions where music can be taught or practiced formally - as it should be, from childhood, to have a chance at excellence.  [/quote]

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