This also gave Muhammad the chance to learn Arabic and Arab traditions.

The Arabic tradition consists of sketching sixteen random lines of dots in sand.

He was only 4 years old when he started studying the oud, which has been in the Arabic musical tradition since at least the seventh century.

It's an Arabic tradition, and it's our whole business.

A story told, illustrated and lettered in the Arabic tradition.

But its center is an ardent voice, singing the intricate slides and quick curlicues of Arabic tradition.

The purpose of his writing works is to rationalize musical traditions, an attempt to develop Arabic musical traditions.

The last, again following Arabic tradition, was the name of his home village, Tikrit, north of Baghdad.

The concept appears in the Arabic Aristotelian tradition as jâzim, or 'truth-apt'.

"I was drawing on the Arabic tradition of storytelling one-upmanship," Kasem says.