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There is a curious, slighting reference to religious rituals among the non-Muslim population of Mecca consisting of mere whistling and handclapping (Qur’an 8:35). As of now, I have not found this utilized in an expression of a forbidding attitude to music, but Farmer (1929/2001: 23) claims that Arabs of his time considered whistling “a prompting of the Devil.”
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Otterbeck, J., Ackfeldt, A. Music and Islam. Cont Islam 6, 227–233 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-012-0220-0
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