as-Sarakhsī

Islamic author

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In Islamic arts: The Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties: classical Islamic music
…did others such as al-Sarakhsī, his contemporary Thābit ibn Qurrah, and Avicenna’s pupil Ibn Zaylā. The last important theorist to emerge during the Abbasid period was Ṣafī al-Dīn, who codified the elements of the modal practice as it was then known into a highly sophisticated system. His achievement became…
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