Ibn Kurr

Summary

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 edit

  1. ^ 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.