Pleasure for the Ears in the Art of Sama’

The book brings out the creative value of Ahmad Ben Youssef Al Tifashi in
the sixth and seventh centuries Hijri, as it includes numerous documents
relating to poetry and the rules of dancing and singing in palaces, and shows
the place of literary salons and celebratory rituals based on practical
experience as opposed to funereal perception, and founding creative work on
depth and aesthetic value. The book liberates the minds from “the illusions of
detestable bigotry and crude ideological instrumentalization that had become
associated with Islam and Muslims” as stated in the introduction by Dr
Abdelmajid Charfi. For this reason, Pleasure for the ears in the art of Sama’ is
an important reference that makes known an innovator who was not the object
of sufficient attention by researchers in spite of the richness of his experience
and the boldness of his views that defied social conventions and prevalent
moral standards