Singing the Qur’an : Blasphemy or religious devotion ?
▻http://www.al-bab.com/blog/2016/march/singing-the-quran-blasphemy-or-devotion.htm#sthash.AM4XhKXe.Nxsw7XE8.dpbs
The video above, from 2014, shows an Indonesian opera company giving the Qur’an a full choral and orchestral treatment. And – horror of horrors – it even includes female singers.
In Islamic terms, or at least the more puritanical interpretations, this is certainly controversial but it is difficult to argue that the intention behind it is in any way irreligious or disrespectful.
A few months later, Egypt’s highest religious authority, al-Azhar, issued a ruling on the Indonesian performance, describing it as “a deviation and a distortion”. Recitation of the Qur’an differs from singing, it said – and singing the Qur’an to a tune is forbidden. According to al-Azhar, adding a tune makes the Qur’an comparable to songs and reduces the capacity of the readers and listeners to understand the true meaning of the verses. (The full Arabic text of the ruling is here.)
Al-Azhar, of course, has no control over what happens in Indonesia, though its ruling was cited in the case of the Bahrain “singer”.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_q5EXpe4GI
Si vous n’êtes pas touché par la foi après ça ! Brian Whitaker propose deux autres « interprétations musicales » du Coran dans le mêmearticle.