What were the characteristics of dance in the Arab-Islamic world during the period of obscurantism?

From the simple tunes and camel-like rhythms of the Arab nomads and the condition of the musical instruments, the dances of this period could not be described as art, and were probably only simple ideographic human movements of the kind that are "not enough to speak, but to sing, and not enough to sing, but to dance with the hands, and to walk with the feet".