The book İslam Kültüründe Musiki (Music in Islamic Culture), authored by Ubeydullah Sezikli and Muharrem Hafız, has been published as part of İSAM’s Basic Culture Series.

İslam Kültüründe Musiki explores the historical development, theoretical foundations, and cultural dimensions of Islamic music through a comprehensive approach. The book encompasses a wide musical heritage—from the desert resonances of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry to the melodies raised upon the Prophet’s migration to Medina; from the philosophical classification of music as a mathematical science by al-Kindī, al-Fārābī, and Ibn Sīnā to the intricate modal analyses of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Marāghī; from Sufi music performed in lodges to the rhythms of the mehter military bands; and from the institutional and formal transformations of the Ottoman period to the Republican era and the present day.

Music is a powerful medium that gives depth to emotion, direction to thought, and expression to identity—it is the aesthetic articulation of being. While taking diverse forms across regions, music has been seen in many societies as a means of turning toward the divine, engaging in spiritual reflection, and achieving inner purification. Islamic civilization, too, embraced this universal language within both artistic and scholarly frameworks, cultivating a unique tradition of music. İslam Kültüründe Musiki aims to present this tradition through a holistic and contextualized lens.