{"product_id":"medieval-arab-music-and-musicians-9789004501515","title":"Medieval Arab Music and Musicians","description":"\u003ci\u003eMedieval Arab Music and Musicians\u003c\/i\u003e offers complete, annotated English translations of three of the most important medieval Arabic texts on music and musicians: the biography of the musician Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī from al-Iṣbahānī’s \u003ci\u003eKitāb al-Aghānī\u003c\/i\u003e (10th c), the biography of the musician Ziryāb from Ibn Ḥayyān’s \u003ci\u003eKitāb al-Muqtabis\u003c\/i\u003e (11th c), and the earliest treatise on the \u003ci\u003emuwashshaḥ\u003c\/i\u003e Andalusi song genre, \u003ci\u003eDār al-Ṭirāz\u003c\/i\u003e, by the Egyptian scholar Ibn Sanā’ al-Mulk (13th c).\u003cbr\u003e\nAl-Mawṣilī, the most famous musician of his era, was also the teacher of the legendary Ziryāb, who traveled from Baghdad to al-Andalus and is often said to have laid the foundations of Andalusi music. The third text is crucial to any understanding of the medieval \u003ci\u003emuwashshaḥ\u003c\/i\u003e and its possible relations to the Troubadours, the \u003ci\u003eCantigas de Santa María\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Andalusi musical traditions of the modern Middle East.","brand":"Dwight Reynolds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48310349332731,"sku":"9789004501515","price":131.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_552f5e05-be01-4f88-89d4-ca1e6ebe8afe.jpg?v=1780614427","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/medieval-arab-music-and-musicians-9789004501515","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}