Insofar as the lute has anything to do with Islam at all, it derives from the pre-Islamic east - like the one I saw in the British Museum a couple of years back from Mesopotamia, circa 3,000 BC. Then Mohammed showed up and that was the day the music died: Drove my camel to the wadi, but the wadi was dry.
This man is a Canadian national treasure, if only his imbecile compatriots would realize.
Though I live in Arizona, this is one Canadian that would marry Mark Steyn, if one of us were (a real) female.