عبد الرحمن الأوسط
Ziryab was a gifted pupil of Ishaq al-Mawsili, where Ziryab got his first lessons. He left Baghdad during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun and moved to Córdoba in southern Iberia, where he was accepted as court musician in the court of Abd ar-Rahman II of the Umayyad Dynasty.