stringed+instrument
131sitar — sitarist, n. /si tahr /, n. a lute of India with a small, pear shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck. [1835 45; < Hindi sitar] * * * Long necked stringed instrument of northern India, the dominant instrument in Hindustani music. It is used… …
132Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
