This is not an entirely unreasonable theory .
Miniature paintings of this era show instruments that sort of look like tabla , but this would mean that tabla emerged from within the Muslim community of Indian subcontinent and were not an Arabian import .
This is not an entirely unreasonable theory , and miniature paintings of this era show instruments that sort of look like tabla , but this would mean that tabla emerged from within the Muslim community of Indian subcontinent and were not an Arabian import .