Author
the ʿAbbasid theologian and courtier Abū Aḥmad Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Munajjim
Publication Date
2 Friday I 1073 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2361, ff 236v-238v
Record ID
vdc_100131607039.0x000004
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
2 Friday I 1073 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
A treatise on the modal systems of the early Islamic era by the ʿAbbasid theologian and courtier Abū Aḥmad Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Munajjim (Abu Ahmad Yahya ibn Ali ibn al-Munajjim, d. 300/912-13 ). The text is addressed to the Abbasid Caliph al-Mu'taḍḍid bi-llāh (Al-Mu'tazid al-Billah, r. 892-902). Ibn al-Munajjim's father had trained under the great performer and teacher Isḥāq al-Mawṣīlī (Ishaq al-Mussalī, d. 850) whose teachings are frequently cited in the treatise. He represents a conservative school of thought, resistant to the increasing musical innovation and non-Arab influences in cosmopolitan ninth-century Baghdad.
The present copy was completed on 2 Friday I 1073/13 December 1662 and collated in the city of Kashmir (Srinagar) on 25 Muḥarram 1074/29 August 1663 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 238v, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 236v, lines 1-4):
The letter of Yahya ibn Ali ibn Yahya al-Manjam, the leader of the Amir al-Mu'minin al-Mu'tazad al-Mu'tazad in Allah, is narrated in music
We mentioned in our book that before this magical attribute and what must be on it and we describe it now
From that and sort now the order of the song and its number and what it takes away from it and varies and places earlier earlier than others
Ishaq Ibn Ibrahim Al-Mosul's speech and presentation of every song from every hand and let's see what the sky is.
Ends (f. 238v, lines 6-7):
...There are many who claim the right to this industry to test the issue
Some of what we mention in this book is difficult to know
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 238v, lines 7-8):
The message expired on Thursday, 2nd of the month of Hamad (!), the first day of the year
It was originally held on Wednesday 25 Muharram 1074 in Kashmir
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Farmer, Henry George,
The Sources of Arabian Music. An Annotated Bibliography of Arabic Manuscripts which Deal with the Theory, Practice, and History of Arabian Music
, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1965), No. 143, p. 24
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 823, XI, p. 561
Shiloah, Amnon,
The Theory of Music in Arabic Writings (c. 900-1900): Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in Libraries of Europe and the U.S.A.
(Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 1979), pp. 200-01
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Ibn al-Munajjim,
Risālah fī al-mūsīqá,
ed. by Zakarīyā Yūsuf (al-Qāhirah: Dār al-Qalam, 1964)
Studies:
Shawqī, Yūsuf,
Risālat Yaḥyá
ibn al-Munajjim fī-l-mūsīqá wa kashf rumūz kitāb al-aghānī
(al-Qāhirah: Maṭābiʻ al-Hayʼah al-Misrīyah al-ʻĀmmah li-l-Kitāb, 1976)
Wright, Owen, 'Ibn al-Munajjim and the Early Arabian Modes',
Galpin Society Journal
, 19 (1966), pp. 27-48
