Rhythmic theories and practices in Arabic writings to 339 AH/950 CE
Subtitle: annotated translations and commentaries
By: by George Dimitri Sawa
Contributors: Ibn al-Nadīm al-Mawṣilī, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, 771 or 2-849 or 50; Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī, 897 or 8-967; Ibn Khurradādhbih, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh, ca. 820-ca. 912; Baṭalyawsī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, 1052 or 3-1127; Kindī, d. ca. 873; Fārābī
Series: Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen = Musicological studies -- Bd. 93 = vol. XCIII; Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (Institute of Mediaeval Music) -- Bd. 93.
Publisher: Institute of Mediaeval Music
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 639
ISBN-13: 9781896926988
Description: "The present work is an English translation and commentary on the Arabic treatises on rhythms from the early Islamic era to the middle of the fourth century AH/tenth century CE"--Preface.
Notes: Includes Arabic-English, English-Arabic, and Greek-Arabic-English glossaries.

Includes bibliography (p. [583]-593) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Theories of the Arab practitioners. Isḥāq al-Mawṣilī on the Medieval Arabic īqāʻāt; title: Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī : commentary on the rhythmic writings of Isḥāq al-Mawṣilī and Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mahdī in The book of songs; title: Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥa's definitions of the īqāʻāt in al-Fārābī's KII; title: Ibn Khurdādhba on the īqāʻāt; title: Al-Baṭaliawsī on the īqāʻāt.; title: Part two. The fusion of Arabic and Greek theories. Al-Kindī on the īqāʻāt; title: Al-Fārābī's Grand book of music. First chapter on rhythms; title: Al-Fārābī's Grand book of music. Second chapter on rhythms; title: The book of rhythms; title: The book for the basic comprehension of rhythms; title: The language of al-Fārābī and its sources; title: Pedigree of the sources; title: Summary of the basic īqāʻāt : a comparative approach to the sources; title: Al-Fārābī's rhythmic variations; title: Al-Kindī's appendix; title: Concluding remarks.