Pythagoras in Baghdad: Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Urmawī and the Science of Music in the Medieval Islamic World

What can we learn about the Intellectual history of the pre-modern Islamic world by examining the science of music? This dissertation addresses how the science of music, as a body of knowledge, was appropriated from its Greek origins, how this science was then reproduced and disseminated throughout...

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Main Author: Ansari, Mohammad Sadegh
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-3c57-w907