Ibrahim al-Mawsili
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī (
Life and career
Born in
caliph al-Mansur, who enabled him to come to Basra and take singing lessons. Singing, not study, attracted him, and at the age of twenty-three he fled to Mosul, where he joined a band of wild youths. His fame as a singer spread, and the caliph al-Mahdi brought him to the court. There he remained a favorite under al-Hadi, while Harun al-Rashid kept him always with him until his death, when he ordered his son al-Ma'mun to say the prayer over his corpse.[3][4][5][1]
He had many pupils, chief among them his son
See the Preface to Ahlwardt's Abu Nowas (Greifswald, 1861), pp. 13–18, and the many stories of his life in the Kitab al-Aghani, V. 2-49.[3]
References
- ^ a b Fück 1986, p. 996.
- ^ a b c Neubauer 2001a, "(1) Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī [al-Nadīm]".
- ^ a b Thatcher 1911.
- ^ Schimmel 2019, "The history of Islamic music".
- ^ Fatema Mernissi, "The Forgotten Queens of Islam ", University of Minnesota Press, 1997 pg 55: "Ibrahim al-Mawsili and his son were of Persian origin."[1]
- ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
Sources
- Books
- Zadeh, Travis (2013). "Of Mummies, Poets, And Water Nymphs: Tracing The Codicological Limits of Ibn Khurdādhbih's Geography". In Bernards, Monique (ed.). Abbasid Studies IV: Occasional Papers of the School of 'Abbasid Studies. Exeter: Gibb Memorial Trust. ISBN 978-0-906094-98-3.
- Journal and encyclopedia articles
- Fück, J. W. (1986). "Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī". The Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden and New York: BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-08118-5.
- ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- Grove Music Online. (In Lawergren, Farhat & Blum (2001)))
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- Neubauer, Eckhard (2001a). "Mawṣilī, al- family". ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- Rowson, Everett K. (2012) [1998]. "Esḥāq Mawṣelī". Encyclopædia Iranica. Leiden: Brill Publishers.
- Schimmel, Annemarie (19 November 2019). "Islamic arts - The history of Islamic music | Britannica". Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Archived from the original on 22 June 2021.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ibrahīm Al-Mauṣilī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 223.
- Wright, Owen (1966). "Ibn al-Munajjim and the Early Arabian Modes". The Galpin Society Journal. 19: 27–48. JSTOR 841911.
- Wright, Owen; Poché, Christian; Shiloah, Amnon (2001). "Arab music". ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- Wright, Owen (2001a). "2. The early period (to 900 CE)". Grove Music Online. (In Wright, Poché & Shiloah (2001)))
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link - Wright, Owen (2001b). "3. The later Abbasids (900–1258)". Grove Music Online. (In Wright, Poché & Shiloah (2001)))
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- Wright, Owen (2001a). "2. The early period (to 900 CE)".
- Wright, Owen (2018). "Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill Publishers.
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