Ishaq al-Mawsili

Ishaq al-Mawsili (Arabic: إسحاق الموصلي‎‎) was a Kurdish[1][2] or Persian[3][4][5] musician of the Abbasid court at the time of Harun al-Rashid. He was born into family of musicians from Kufa in Iraq;[5] his father Ibrahim al-Mawsili held the same position before him.[3][5]

He was also the teacher of the influential Ziryab, and the contemporary of Mukhariq.


References

  1. ↑ Gérard Chaliand, A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan "A Kurdish musician from Mosul, Ibrahim Mawsili... His son, Ishaq developed and codified his work..."
  2. ↑ Mehrdad İzady,The Kurds,(1991)
  3. 1 2 "Isḥāq al-Mawṣilī." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 23 Sep. 2011. . "Among the finest artists of the period were Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī and his son Isḥāq. Members of a noble Persian family, they were chief court musicians and close companions of the caliphs Hārūn al-Rashīd and al-Maʾmūn."
  4. ↑ Fatima Mernissi, "The Forgotten Queens of Islam ", University of Minnesota Press, 1997 pg 55: "Ibrahim al-Mawsili and his son were of Persian origin."
  5. 1 2 3 E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936 pg 439:"IBRAHIM AL-MAW§ILI, IBRAHIM B. MA- HAN B. BAHMAN, also known as al-Nadlm al- Mawsili, one of the most celebrated musicians of Arab history, a man of Persian origin, was born at Kufa in 125 (742) and died at Baghdad in 188 (804). "
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