تقديم بعض مخطوطات حكم السماع والموسيقى في الإسلام بتونس من القرن السابع عشر إلى القرن التاسع عشر

Abstract

Our research focuses on presenting a number of Tunisian manuscripts that address the rulings on music and listening in Islam, some permitting it, such as the manuscript "The Canon of the Pure in the Science of the Melodies of the Intelligent" by Mahmoud bin Muhammad bin al-Hajj Muhammad al-Sayyala al-Sfaxi, written in the 1830s. This manuscript contains sixty pages that discuss the jurisprudential stance on music and its relationship to poetry, medicine, astronomy, and other sciences. Another manuscript is "The Adornment of the Bride and the Expansion of Souls," written in early Safar 1220 AH (May 1805 CE) by the notary al-Hajj Ahmad bin Hammouda al-Sannan. This manuscript addresses several issues related to music, such as the issue of reciting the Quran with a beautiful voice in the fifth chapter and the issue of reciting the Quran with melodies in the sixth and final chapter. We will also present some manuscripts that prohibit music and listening, such as the manuscript "Fatwas on the Prohibition of Dancing and Singing," copied by Ali bin Muhammad al-Samawi in 1730 CE, which prohibits certain manifestations of this prohibition. The dancing and singing prevalent in the music of the Sufi orders in Tunisia, and the manuscript “A Treatise on the Ruling of Listening and Writing the Qur’an in the Ottoman Script” by Ali bin Muhammad al-Safaqsi al-Nuri (died in 1706 AD), which is a work dating back to the end of the seventeenth century, came as a response to a letter from the Sheikh of the Salamiya Order in Tripoli to express an opinion on a jurisprudential issue related to the use of tambourines in the dhikr of the order.