The Man Who Shaped Middle Eastern Music

In this video, we talk about what is perhaps the most significant music theorist and systematizer in the history of Middle Eastern & Persian music - Safi al-din al-Urmawi, and his fascinating life.

Music by:
Ali Sabah
Fares Charestan
Filip Holm

Sources/Suggested Reading:

Arslan, Fazli (2007). "Safī al-Dīn al-Urmawī and the Theory of Music: Al-Risāla al-sharafiyya fī al-nisab al-ta’līfiyya - Content, Analysis, and Influences". Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilization.

Arslan, Fazh (?). "Qur’ān’s Tacwīd at Qutb Al-Dīn al-Shirāzī’s Music Notation". International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Vol. 1 No. 10.

Nielson, Lisa (2021). "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social and Cultural History: A Social History". I.B. Tauris.

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Van Gelder, Geert Jan (2012). "Sing Me To Sleep: Safi al-din al-Urmawi, Hulegu, and the Power of Music". NUOVA SERIE, Vol. 7, Arabic Literature and Music (2012), pp. 1-9. Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino.

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Wright, Owen (1994). "'Abd al-Qādir al-Marāghī and 'Alī B. Muḥammad Binā'ī: Two Fifteenth-Century Examples of Notation Part 1: Text". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.
57, No. 3 (1994), pp. 475-515. Cambridge University Press.

Wright, Owen (1995). "A Preliminary Version of the "kitāb al-Adwār". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.
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