al-Fārābī, music - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Fārābī, music - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Sawa, George Dimitri

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060149
Doc. NO	:	ALei546
Main Entry	:	Sawa, George Dimitri
Title & Author	:	al-Fārābī, music - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Sawa, George Dimitri
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,824 words)
Abstract	:	Al-Fārābī is the pre-eminent theorist on music in the history of the Middle East. Regrettably, Middle Eastern specialists in fields other than music view him only as a political philosopher and logician; musicologists who deal with mediaeval Western music are unaware of his contributions to music theory and his useful commentaries on the treatises of ancient Greek music theorists. Of the approximately one hundred and sixty works al-Fārābī wrote, eight deal with music, but only four are known to have survived. The first and least important is
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei546.pdf