Ḥusnī, Dāwūd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Ḥusnī, Dāwūd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Danielson, Virginia

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1063313
Doc. NO	:	ALei3710
Main Entry	:	Danielson, Virginia
Title & Author	:	Ḥusnī, Dāwūd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Danielson, Virginia
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(477 words)
Abstract	:	Dāwūd Ḥusnī (1870–1937) was an Egyptian composer and musician born in Cairo to a Karaite Jewish family in Old Cairo. He showed an interest and talent for music while in elementary school and studied ʿūd , the pedagogical instrument of choice, on which he would learn the Arab system of maqāmāt , or melodic modes. He also learned established Turco-Egyptian musical forms such as the bashraf and dawr , and the system of rhythmic modes or īqāʿāt . He learned well the compositions of ʿAbduh al-Ḥamūlī (d. 1901) and Muḥammad ʿUthmān (
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3710.pdf