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Arabic music is the music of the Arab World, including several genres and styles of music ranging from Arabic classical to Arabic pop music and from secular to sacred music. Arabic music, while independent and very alive, has a long history of interaction with many other regional musical styles and genres. It is an amalgam of the music of the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula and the music of all the peoples that make up the Arab World today. It also influenced and has been influenced by Egyptian, Cypriot, Greek, Persian, Kurdish, Assyrian, Turkish, Indian, African (i.e. North African, Berber and Swahili) and European music (i.e. Flamenco). As was the case in other artistic and scientific fields, Arabs translated and developed Greek texts and works of music and mastered the musical theory of the Greeks.
Arabic Music: Ahmed Bukhatir, Marwan Ali, Saber El Robaey, Hussein Al Salman, Hamza El Din, Ammar Hassan, Ehab Tawfik, Diana Haddad, Asala Nasri, Sherine Ahmed, Samira Saeed, Najwa Karam, Nancy Ajram, Nawal Al Zoghbi, Amr Diab, Dolly Chahine, Aseel Omran, Dania El Khatib, Angham, Myriam Fares, Yasmein El Gohary, Yara Shabany, Elias Karam, Fares Karam, Amal Hegazy, Omneya Soliman, Carol Samaha, Yara, Haifa Wehbe, Grace Deab, Ragheb Alamah, Wael Kfouri, DJ Saeed Murad, Tamer Hosny, Mohammad Hamaky, Ahlam, Hossam Habib, Sami Yusuf, Ibtisam Lutfi, Fadel-Shaker, Kazem Al Saher, Ragheb Alama, Asalah, Shereen, Omar Al-Abdillat, Shaam, Aziza Jalal, Rim Banna, Amal Hijazi, Master Musicians Of Jajouka, Rashed Al-Majed, and Ramy Sabry.
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While holding one end of the chain, the Manriki Gusari could be swung around and used as a whip. The weighted end could cause a great deal of damage.
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While the Baha'i Faith promotes the unity of mankind, it condemns homosexuality. This "may" not be the case for all Baha'is however. Just like how some Christians do not oppose homosexuality. Along with believing in one God, Baha'is believe that all prejudice is destructive and must be overcome and they believe that science and religion are one. They also believe that all major religions come from God and both men and women are viewed as equals. Their holy books are primarily the Kitab-i-Aqdas and the Kitab-i-Iqan.
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The religion also teaches that each person has free will to choose, with consequences of happiness and misery. Zoroastrians believe that when someone dies, the body must be kept in home for 3 days while the soul hangs about it. On the 4th day, the corpse-bearer raise a massive Tower of Silence (dakhma) with a circular stone platform on the top inclined to a central wall. The body is stripped and then placed on this, exposed to vultures and elements. When the flesh is gone, the bones are swept into the well to disintegrate. This is done to minimize effects of decay on the air, fire, earth, and water. Many Parsis still use Towers of Silence, but those in Iran have shifted to earth burial and those in the West use burial or cremation. After this life, each person is judged at the Chinvat Bridge, shaped as a sword. It turns on its edge for the evil and they fall into an abyss of torment and the righteous pass over it as a broad and flat path to rewards in heaven. The traditional temple of Zoroastrianism is the Fire Temple. It has a central chamber with a stone platform on which fire is always burning in a metal urn on a bed of sand or ash. The priest (magi) keep the fire, perform rituals, prayer, and wear masks so they do not pollute the fire. The fire at Udvada north of Bombay is held to have burned for over 1,000 years.
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Mambo: Xavier Cugat, Perez Prado, Israel "Cachao" Lopez, Tito Puente, Tito Puente Jr., Tito Rodriguez, Machito, Orlando Marin, Benny Moré
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