By: Rachida Lamri | Date: February 10, 2026 | Newarab.com
In medieval Muslim-ruled Iberia, during the golden age of Al Andalus, a certain chamber music was born. It evolved and echoed for centuries in the royal palaces, noble courts and culture of Córdoba, Seville and Granada.
This music was forged over time and, quite literally, through movement: musicians, poets and theorists arrived from across the Muslim world and the wider Mediterranean, bringing to the royal courts their repertoires, instruments and ideas, which were refined locally into something unmistakably Andalusi.
