Rituals usually unfold in a concentrated time and space so that audiences can watch and be moved by all parts of them

The instrumentation of this seven-piece musical ensemble represents some of the most important instruments in traditional Arab music. Name, briefly describe, and classify the instruments that the performers in the ensemble are playing. See also Figure 10.1, The Takht Ensemble, which illustrates the performers and their instruments

What will be an ideal response?

Although Muhammad had all the idols within it destroyed, why did he allow the Kaaba to be preserved?

A. It was the location of his divine inspiration. B. He knew it would be the site of his ascendancy into Paradise. C. It was his family's ancestral home. D. He saw it as the Islamic world’s symbolic center.