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	== Contemporary and trending ==		== Contemporary and trending ==
	~~These~~ traditions ~~continue through associations~~, ~~conservatories, families, orchestras, festivals and attentive audiences~~. The ~~Institut du monde arabe's~~ 2026 ~~Moroccan-focused~~ programme, ~~built with a practitioners' association, combined performances~~ and ~~introductory workshops~~, ~~illustrating active transmission~~ and ~~international presentation~~. ~~Such events are one part of a wider local life~~. ~~Heritage status and formal teaching coexist with individual interpretation and changing ensemble sound~~. ~~Contemporary continuity therefore means musicians repeatedly making a repertory meaningful~~, ~~rather than simply maintaining an archive that can substitute for practical learning~~. <ref name="~~ima~~-~~andaloussiyat~~" />
			Andalusi traditions remain actively interpreted and taught, rather than preserved as one unchanging medieval sound. The Moroccan Al Ala association AAMAM partnered in the IMA’s May–June 2026 programme of concerts, instrument workshops and discussion. The 2025 Constantine report separately presents Gharnati, Sanaâ and Malouf as related but distinguishable musical worlds. <ref name="africa2026-ma-andaloussiyat-2026">[https://www.imarabe.org/fr/agenda/festivals/andaloussiyat-rencontres-autour-musiques-arabo-andalouses-du-maroc Institut du monde arabe / AAMAM, Andaloussiyat: Rencontres autour des musiques arabo-andalouses du Maroc, 29 May–3 June 2026]. Access note: Full public programme description read; music/audio not investigated.</ref> <ref name="africa2026-dz-malouf-2025">[https://news.radioalgerie.dz/fr/node/71131 APS / Radio Algérienne, Ouverture du 13e Festival international du Malouf, 21 September 2025]. Access note: Full public indexed report read; linked recordings not investigated.</ref>

	== History ==		== History ==
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	== Geography and communities ==		== Geography and communities ==
	~~The strongest landscapes are northern~~ and ~~central~~ Moroccan~~, northern~~ Algerian and ~~Tunisian–western Libyan networks~~ of ~~towns~~, ~~associations~~ and ~~surrounding communities~~. ~~Several broad fields preserve these distinct schools~~ while ~~allowing related cultural affinity between them~~. ~~A lower~~-~~strength France–Benelux~~ field ~~represents diaspora and adopted learning~~. ~~Present~~-~~day Andalusia is historically meaningful~~, ~~but it should not automatically receive~~ the ~~strongest contemporary practice field simply because~~ the ~~family name refers to its past~~. The ~~map distinguishes historical reference from where living Maghrebi institutions~~ and ~~communities sustain the music now~~.
			This is a family of locally maintained North African traditions. Jonathan Glasser’s research centers on Algiers, Tlemcen and Algerian/Moroccan borderlands; its account of national patrimony and association life should not be converted into an assumption of majority listening. Moroccan Al Ala and the Algerian schools sustain different repertoires and institutions. <ref name="africa2026-north-glasser">[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo22340510.html Jonathan Glasser, The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa, University of Chicago Press, 2016]. Access note: Full publisher synopsis, contents and metadata read; book body not obtained. Reviews are not substituted for direct book reading.</ref> <ref name="africa2026-ma-andaloussiyat-2026" />

			Tunisian Malouf’s national educational history is separately documented by Ruth Davis, while contemporary Tripoli institutions belong to a Libyan setting. The map uses differentiated northern landscapes and retains the existing European circuit. The family’s historical Andalusi name does not, by itself, establish a strong present-day field in Spain or across the Sahara. <ref name="africa2026-tn-davis-ma-luf">[https://www2.umbc.edu/MA/index/number7/davis/dav_00.htm Ruth Davis, Al-Andalus in Tunis: sketches of the Ma’luf in the 1990s, Music & Anthropology 7 (2002)]. Access note: Introduction, The ma’luf of Tunisia and Twentieth century renaissances sections read in full. Later artist/recording case studies and audio not investigated.</ref> <ref name="africa2026-ly-malouf-2025">[https://lana.gov.ly/post.php?id=337139&lang=en Libyan News Agency, Tripoli International Malouf Festival organizing committee recognition, 20 July 2025]. Access note: Full public indexed report read.</ref>

	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
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	== Hotspot mushrooms ==		== Hotspot mushrooms ==
	This is a living Maghrebi family with distinct regional schools, not a strong modern-Spain field inferred from its name. Broad Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian/Libyan landscapes preserve continuity and difference, plus a lighter diaspora circuit.

	~~These~~ fields ~~are~~ editorial ~~illustrations of~~ musical affinity and ~~cultural~~ reach, not ~~listener statistics~~. Radius ~~marks~~ the zero edge of ~~the~~ fade; ~~overlapping fields of this~~ genre combine by maximum.		A differentiated North African family of Andalusi art repertoires. Moroccan, Tlemcen/borderland, Algiers and eastern Maghrebi institutions are represented at moderate relative affinity, with the existing European circuit separate.

			The fields express editorial judgments about relative musical affinity and reach, not measured audience shares. Radius is the zero edge of a linear fade; same-genre overlaps combine by maximum.

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	! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes		! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

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	\| andalusi-classical-~~moroccan~~ \|\| Moroccan ~~al-ala and~~ Andalusi ~~cultural landscape~~ \|\| 34 \|\| -5.5 \|\| ~~900~~ \|\| 1 \|\| ~~Associations, towns~~ and ~~connected communities~~.		\| andalusi-classical-european \|\| French–Benelux Maghrebi Andalusi circuit \|\| 49.0 \|\| 3.0 \|\| 750.0 \|\| 0.42 \|\| Detached diaspora, associations and adopted study.
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			\| andalusi-classical-morocco-reviewed \|\| Northern/central Moroccan Andalusi traditions \|\| 34.2 \|\| -5.5 \|\| 640 \|\| 0.56 \|\| Al Ala and related town/association networks; cultural recognition is not national majority listening.
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			\| andalusi-classical-tlemcen-borderlands \|\| Tlemcen and western Algerian–Moroccan connections \|\| 35 \|\| -1.35 \|\| 410 \|\| 0.56 \|\| Regional school and cross-border relationships documented in ethnography.
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	\| andalusi-classical-~~algerian~~ \|\| ~~Northern Algerian~~ Andalusi ~~schools landscape~~ \|\| 36 \|\| 3 \|\| ~~1150~~ \|\| 1 \|\| Distinct ~~related schools across a broad northern corridor~~.		\| andalusi-classical-algiers-reviewed \|\| Algiers and north-central Andalusi institutions \|\| 36.2 \|\| 3.1 \|\| 430 \|\| 0.49 \|\| Distinct Sanaâ and connected association public.

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	\| andalusi-classical-eastern-maghreb \|\| ~~Tunisian–western Libyan~~ Andalusi-~~associated landscape~~ \|\| 35 \|\| 10.5 \|\| ~~950~~ \|\| 0.9 \|\| Malouf-related ~~institutions and publics~~.		\| andalusi-classical-eastern-maghreb-reviewed \|\| Eastern Algerian and Tunisian Andalusi-related institutions \|\| 36 \|\| 8.6 \|\| 470 \|\| 0.39 \|\| Includes Malouf-related traditions which also have a more specific independent entry.

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	\| andalusi-classical-~~european~~ \|\| ~~French–Benelux Maghrebi~~ Andalusi ~~circuit~~ \|\| 49 \|\| 3 \|\| ~~750~~ \|\| 0.42 \|\| ~~Detached diaspora~~, ~~associations and adopted study~~.		\| andalusi-classical-libya-reviewed \|\| Western Libyan Andalusi-related institutions \|\| 32.3 \|\| 13.2 \|\| 390 \|\| 0.32 \|\| Related Libyan Malouf institutions, not uniform pan-Maghreb taste.

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	\| Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod and Mohamed Briouel's orchestra \|\| Rabat concert — March 2022 \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/5kgrUs2iEVk \|\| A joint orchestral concert in Rabat with named Moroccan and Israeli soloists, including Abderrahim Souiri and Emil Zrihen. It documents shared Moroccan Andalusi repertoire and its circulation between communities.<ref name="performance-andalusi-classical-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kgrUs2iEVk Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod and Mohamed Briouel's orchestra — Rabat concert — March 2022]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>		\| Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod and Mohamed Briouel's orchestra \|\| Rabat concert — March 2022 \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/5kgrUs2iEVk \|\| A joint orchestral concert in Rabat with named Moroccan and Israeli soloists, including Abderrahim Souiri and Emil Zrihen. It documents shared Moroccan Andalusi repertoire and its circulation between communities.<ref name="performance-andalusi-classical-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kgrUs2iEVk Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod and Mohamed Briouel's orchestra — Rabat concert — March 2022]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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			\| Chakib Benhizia (YouTube channel) \|\| Beihdja Rahal - Nouba Raml \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/INtJ6O73zYI \|\| Selected by Ed for Andalusi classical music; embedded playback checked 18 October 2026. Artist attribution is the channel credit; see the video title for performer details.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INtJ6O73zYI Beihdja Rahal - Nouba Raml]. YouTube; channel: Chakib Benhizia.</ref>
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			\| By Ουσς Φ. (YouTube channel) \|\| تواشي نوبة الغريب \| Tawâshi nûbat al-gherib \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/rX3a-KYS3z0 \|\| Selected by Ed for Andalusi classical music; embedded playback checked 18 October 2026. Artist attribution is the channel credit; see the video title for performer details.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX3a-KYS3z0 تواشي نوبة الغريب \| Tawâshi nûbat al-gherib]. YouTube; channel: By Ουσς Φ..</ref>
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	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
	Moroccan orchestral lineages around Abdelkrim Raïs and Mohamed Briouel provide one route, while Algerian figures such as Mohamed Tahar Fergani and established local associations reveal different schools. Tunisian ensembles and the Rachidia institution offer another perspective. These names should be followed into actual repertories rather than treated as interchangeable national representatives. Singers, instrumentalists, teachers, poets and compilers all contribute. Comparing the development of a suite in two schools teaches more than searching for a single universally authoritative version of Andalusi music.		Moroccan orchestral lineages around Abdelkrim Raïs and Mohamed Briouel provide one route, while Algerian figures such as Mohamed Tahar Fergani and established local associations reveal different schools. Tunisian ensembles and the Rachidia institution offer another perspective. These names should be followed into actual repertories rather than treated as interchangeable national representatives. Singers, instrumentalists, teachers, poets and compilers all contribute. Comparing the development of a suite in two schools teaches more than searching for a single universally authoritative version of Andalusi music.

			== Representative performances ==
			These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

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			\| Orchestre Andalou de Fès, directed by Mohamed Briouel \|\| Moroccan Andalusi concert — February 2024 \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/PcW8L-pJhLY \|\| The Fès orchestra presents Morocco's living Andalusi orchestral tradition. Published by the Moroccan association devoted to this music; this represents the Moroccan lineage within a wider North African classical family.<ref name="performance-andalusi-classical-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcW8L-pJhLY Orchestre Andalou de Fès, directed by Mohamed Briouel — Moroccan Andalusi concert — February 2024]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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			\| Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod and Mohamed Briouel's orchestra \|\| Rabat concert — March 2022 \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/5kgrUs2iEVk \|\| A joint orchestral concert in Rabat with named Moroccan and Israeli soloists, including Abderrahim Souiri and Emil Zrihen. It documents shared Moroccan Andalusi repertoire and its circulation between communities.<ref name="performance-andalusi-classical-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kgrUs2iEVk Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod and Mohamed Briouel's orchestra — Rabat concert — March 2022]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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	== Related genres ==		== Related genres ==
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== Summary ==
Andalusi classical music is a broad family of Maghrebi art-music traditions whose repertories and cultural memory refer to al-Andalus and centuries of exchange across the western Mediterranean. It is not one unchanged medieval soundtrack preserved identically in every country. Moroccan al-ala, Algerian schools and Tunisian or Libyan malouf have their own histories, forms and performance expectations. Poetry, modal organization and extended suites are central routes into the family. The catalogue grouping is an introduction to those relationships, not a replacement for the local names. <ref name="ima-andaloussiyat">[https://www.imarabe.org/fr/agenda/festivals/andaloussiyat-rencontres-autour-musiques-arabo-andalouses-du-maroc Andaloussiyat: Rencontres autour des musiques arabo-andalouses du Maroc — Institut du monde arabe].</ref>

== Contemporary and trending ==
These traditions continue through associations, conservatories, families, orchestras, festivals and attentive audiences. The Institut du monde arabe's 2026 Moroccan-focused programme, built with a practitioners' association, combined performances and introductory workshops, illustrating active transmission and international presentation. Such events are one part of a wider local life. Heritage status and formal teaching coexist with individual interpretation and changing ensemble sound. Contemporary continuity therefore means musicians repeatedly making a repertory meaningful, rather than simply maintaining an archive that can substitute for practical learning. <ref name="ima-andaloussiyat" />

== History ==
The family developed through interactions among Iberian, North African and wider Mediterranean musical worlds, including successive migrations and local transformations. Later institutions shaped which repertories were collected, taught and presented as national heritage. Those modern decisions are part of the history, not transparent windows onto a single medieval original. Muslim and Jewish musicians participated in important related histories of performance and transmission. A useful introduction follows both shared memory and local differentiation, resisting the idea that cultural exchange produces either an impure derivative or a perfectly uniform pan-Maghrebi system.

== Musical characteristics ==
Listen for the relationship between a modal melody, poetic text and an ensemble that often elaborates a shared line rather than supplying Western-style chordal accompaniment. Voice, bowed strings, lutes, percussion and other instruments vary by school. Extended suite organization allows changes of rhythm, tempo and texture to shape a larger arc. A mode is more than a scale: characteristic routes, resting points and inherited melodic knowledge guide performance. Instrumental introductions and freer passages can prepare a tonal world before a measured song develops within it. <ref name="dar-malouf">[https://dareloud.tn/en/repertoire-malouf The malouf repertory: nûba, modes and rhythms — Dar El Oud Ettounsi].</ref>

== Geography and communities ==
The strongest landscapes are northern and central Moroccan, northern Algerian and Tunisian–western Libyan networks of towns, associations and surrounding communities. Several broad fields preserve these distinct schools while allowing related cultural affinity between them. A lower-strength France–Benelux field represents diaspora and adopted learning. Present-day Andalusia is historically meaningful, but it should not automatically receive the strongest contemporary practice field simply because the family name refers to its past. The map distinguishes historical reference from where living Maghrebi institutions and communities sustain the music now.

== Artists ==
Moroccan orchestral lineages around Abdelkrim Raïs and Mohamed Briouel provide one route, while Algerian figures such as Mohamed Tahar Fergani and established local associations reveal different schools. Tunisian ensembles and the Rachidia institution offer another perspective. These names should be followed into actual repertories rather than treated as interchangeable national representatives. Singers, instrumentalists, teachers, poets and compilers all contribute. Comparing the development of a suite in two schools teaches more than searching for a single universally authoritative version of Andalusi music.

== Related genres ==
Malouf is a related catalogue entry that opens particular eastern Maghrebi traditions. Algerian chaabi, hawzi, malhun and other poetic-song fields share resources while maintaining different social and formal identities. Mashriqi maqam traditions provide further comparison but are not an identical system. The family becomes most intelligible when shared history and local musical practice are kept together. That perspective allows a listener to appreciate both cultural memory of al-Andalus and the independent North African creativity that has continually remade the music.

=== References and further reading ===
<references />

* [https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/12045/1/Marcoux-Gendron-C-D-Aout2021.pdf La socialisation musicale au Maghreb — INRS dissertation]

== Hotspot mushrooms ==
This is a living Maghrebi family with distinct regional schools, not a strong modern-Spain field inferred from its name. Broad Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian/Libyan landscapes preserve continuity and difference, plus a lighter diaspora circuit.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

{| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
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! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

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| andalusi-classical-moroccan || Moroccan al-ala and Andalusi cultural landscape || 34 || -5.5 || 900 || 1 || Associations, towns and connected communities.

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| andalusi-classical-algerian || Northern Algerian Andalusi schools landscape || 36 || 3 || 1150 || 1 || Distinct related schools across a broad northern corridor.

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| andalusi-classical-eastern-maghreb || Tunisian–western Libyan Andalusi-associated landscape || 35 || 10.5 || 950 || 0.9 || Malouf-related institutions and publics.

|-
| andalusi-classical-european || French–Benelux Maghrebi Andalusi circuit || 49 || 3 || 750 || 0.42 || Detached diaspora, associations and adopted study.

|}