Section I: Musical Culture in the Early Islamic Courts
Chapter 1: Music and Musicians
Chapter 2: Musicianship and Performance
Chapter 3: Patronage
Section II: Representations of Musicianship and Identity
Chapter 4: Literary Performance of Music and Reading Musical Identity
Chapter 5: Slavery and Gender
Chapter 6: Ethnos and gens
Section III: Diversions of Pleasure
Chapter 7: Discomfort and Censure
Chapter 8: Sama? and Practice
Chapter 9: The Politics of Listening