Method of performing the introduction of the Thousand and One Nights by Umm Kulthum with Hitesh Dogan and Saber Abd al-Sattar on the Qanun instrument (a comparative study) The methods of playing the Qanun instrument go beyond and differ due to the multiplicity of schools of playing. In this research, the researcher tried to identify the performance style of both Saber Abdel Sattar and Hitch Togan in playing the musical introduction to the song One Thousand and One Nights, and benefiting from their playing the qanun to enrich the playing curricula of the student with some different playing methods on the qanun. After presenting the research problem, objectives, importance, research procedures and terminology. The theoretical framework was presented in which the researcher dealt with a biography of Saber Abdel Sattar and Hich Dogan, the modern Turkish school and its features, the modern Egyptian school and its features, as well as the techniques of playing the qanun. Then he presented the applied framework of the research, which included the notation of the performance style of Saber Abdel-Sattar and Hitch Dogan for the musical introduction of Umm Kulthum (the sample of the research) and the tonal and maqam analysis of it, as well as the instrumental analysis of the performance style of both Saber Abdel-Sattar and Hitch Dogan for the musical introduction to the song One Thousand Nights and a night and to identify the most important features of the style of each of them, as well as a comparison of their style in terms of similarities and differences between them. Then the researcher presented the research results, recommendations and references.