However, in an Islamic legal framework the recitation is not music, and to call it so is insulting. The problem is that the term “music,” representing some combination of instruments and voice, does ...

And now, they have begun to burn musical instruments. A guitar, a harmonium, a drum, amps, and speakers were recently set afire in the province of Herat, and posted online.

Sakhi continues to craft rubabs, Afghanistan's national musical instrument, despite a Taliban ban on music. ... considered corrupting in their strict interpretation of Islamic law.

Musicians have been executed, and musical instruments are regularly confiscated and burned. These horrors take place in the name of Islamic purity. But nothing in the Quran bans music,” said ...

The Taliban announced in August that it had destroyed over 20,000 musical instruments in Afghanistan in the past year. The extremist group considers instruments un-Islamic and permits only ...

Taliban morality police in Afghanistan said Tuesday that they had "seized and destroyed" more than 21,000 musical instruments over the past year as part of a crackdown on what they called anti ...