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• SacredSema (Mevlevi Whirling Ceremony)The whirling ceremony of the Mevlevi Sufi order — a Turkish ritual where ney flute, makam suite and circular motion are one form.
• SacredAdhan / Call to PrayerThe Islamic call to prayer — an unaccompanied voice trained to fill a public square five times a day.
• Hip Hop / R&BMizrahi TrapThe 2015-onward Israeli pop offshoot that fuses Mizrahi Pop's Eastern-Mediterranean melodic vocabulary with 808 trap production. Static & Ben El Tavori as the anchoring duo, Netta's 2018 Eurovision winner Toy, plus Peer Tasi and Ravid Plotnik.
• PopIsraeli Religious Popular MusicHebrew-language religious pop that blends Jewish liturgical text with modern production for observant audiences.
• SacredBahá'í MusicNot a single musical style but a multi-language practice of setting Bahá'í scripture to whatever local idiom a community knows.
• SacredMadih NabawiArabic-language praise song addressed to the Prophet Muhammad, sung solo or with frame-drum accompaniment.
• SacredMizrahi Liturgical MusicSynagogue prayer chant of Middle Eastern Jewish communities, sung in Arab maqam without instruments.
• SacredPersian Sufi MusicIranian Sufi devotional music for the dhikr, sung in modal Persian style with daf frame drum and sometimes setar.
• SacredNasheedIslamic vocal song in praise of God, the Prophet or moral virtue, traditionally a cappella or with frame drum only.
• SacredQur'anic Recitation (Tajweed / Tilawa)Theologically governed melodic recitation of the Qur'an, not classed as music in Islamic thought but musically intricate.

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