Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Isa ibn Hasan al-Baghdadi (Arabic: شمس الدين محمد بن عيسى بن حسن البغدادي), known as Ibn Kurr (إبن كُر) (d. 1357 CE), was a musical theorist of medieval Islam. He is the author of Ġāyat al-matḷūb fī 'ilm al-adwār wa-'l-dụrūb (The Enticing Roads to Rhythms and Modes), a work on the musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the 14th century CE. He was born in Cairo to an Iraqi refugee family.[1]
References
- ^ Guo, Li (17 March 2015). "Owen Wright: Music Theory in Mamluk Cairo: The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ʿilm al-adwār wa-'l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr. (SOAS Musicology Series.) ix, 361 pp. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. £75". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 78 (1): 187–188. doi:10.1017/S0041977X14001153. ISBN 978-1-4094-6881-3. S2CID 161295976.
- Wright, Owen (2013). Music Theory in Mamluk Cairo: The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ʿilm al-adwār wa-'l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 9781409468813.
Medieval Perso-Arab music
- Arab music
- Persian traditional music
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| Umayyad | - Tuways
- Nashit
- Sa'ib Khathir
- Ibn Misjaḥ
- al-Gharid
- Hunain al-Hiri
- Algharid
- Ibn Surayj
- Ma'bad
- Yunus al-Katib al-Mughanni
- Ibn Muhriz
- Malik al-Ta'i
| Qiyan | - Atika bint Shuhda
- Azza al-Mayla
- Djamila/Jamila
- Hababah
- Ubayda
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