Michael Frishkopf is a professor of music at the University of Alberta. He is the coeditor of Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees; Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam; and Music and Media in the Arab World.

Scott Marcus is a professor of music (ethnomusicology) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Music in Egypt and coeditor of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 6, The Middle East.

Dwight Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus and Medieval Arab Music and Musicians, as well as coeditor of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 6, The Middle East.

• A Note on Transliteration
• List of Illustrations
• An Introduction to Ṭarab: Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance (Michael Frishkopf, Scott Marcus, and Dwight F. Reynolds)
• 1. Ṭarab in Extremis in Medieval Arabic Sources (Dwight F. Reynolds)
• 2. The Other Ṭarab (George Dmitri Sawa)
• 3. Judeo-Sufi Musical Intersections (Edwin Seroussi)
• 4. A Tale of Two Ṭarabs: Intercultural Music in the Late Ottoman Empire (John O’Connell)
• 5. Sayyid Darwish and Ṭarab (Virginia Danielson)
• 6. From Ṭarab to Turāth: Fifty Years of Arab Music Heritage in Egypt (Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco)
• 7. Ṭarab in the Grooves: Reconsidering a Transitional Moment in the Arab American Arts Economy (Anne K. Rasmussen)
• 8. The Two Tenors: The Ṭarab Artistry of Wadih El Safi and Sabah Fakhri (Sami W. Asmar)
• 9. The Sufi Source of Ṭarab (Michael Frishkopf)
• 10. From Lament to Prayer: Music and Emotional Shifts in the Funeral Ritual of the Maronite Christians in Lebanon (Guilnard Moufarrej)
• 11. Heroism, Desire, Ecstasy: Qamili i VogËl, Kosova Albanian Urban Song, and the Cultivation of Elation (Jane C. Sugarman)
• 12. Sweaty Transcendence and Affect: The Labor of Musical Ecstasy (Sonia Tamar Seeman)
• 13. Teaching Ṭarab: Embodied Interpersonal Learning in University Ensembles (Anne Elise Thomas)
• 14. Songs of the Ṭarab Repertoire: Sites for Understandings Beyond Affect (Scott Marcus)
• 15. Curating Tarab on Music Streaming Services: The Cultural Politics of Localization on Spotify, Anghami, and Deezer (Darci Sprengel)
• Contributors
• Index