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‘By the end of the Umayyid period, the disparate elements of conqueror and conquered were fused into the style of classical Islamic music. With the establishment of the Abbasid caliphate in 750[ce],* Baghdad (in modern Iraq) became the leading musical centre. The Abbasid caliphate is the period of the Golden Age in Islamic music. Music, obligatory for every learned man, was dealt with in varied aspects – among them virtuosity, aesthetic theory, ethical and therapeutic goals, mystical experience, and mathematical speculation. The artist was required to possess technical proficiency, ** creative power and almost encyclopaedic knowledge.’***

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**** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:67]

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