Abbreviations
| Bd |
Bodleian MS Marsh 282 |
| BL |
British Library |
| BN |
Bibliothèque nationale |
| EI2 |
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, ed. P.J. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs, Leiden 1960–2004. |
| EI3 |
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition, ed. Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson, Leiden 2011-‑. |
| IO |
India Office |
| ISZY |
Ibn Sīnā’s Shifāʾ, India Office manuscript number 477 |
| IZZY |
Ibn Zayla, al-Kāfī fī l-mūsīqī, ed. Z. Yūsuf, Cairo 1964. |
| JAOS |
Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| KA |
al-Iṣfahānī, Kitāb al-Ag̲h̲ānī, 24 vols., Cairo 1927–1974. |
| Kamāl |
al-Kātib, Kitāb Kamāl adab al-ghināʾ, Istanbul: Topkapı Sarayı MS R. 1729, 241 fols. |
| KC |
King’s College |
| KhAd |
al-Urmawī, Kitāb al-Adwār, ed. Ghaṭṭās ʿAbd al-Malik Khashaba, rev. and intro. Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Ḥifnī, Cairo 1986. |
| KhK |
Al-Kātib, Kitāb Kamāl adab al-ghināʾ, ed. Ghaṭṭās ʿAbd al-Malik Khashaba, rev. Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Ḥifnī, Cairo 1975. |
| KI |
al-Fārābī, Kitāb al-Īqāʿāt, Istanbul: Topkapı Sarayı MS, Ahmet III 1878, fols. 160b–167a. |
| KII |
al-Fārābī, Kitāb Iḥṣāʾ al-īqāʿāt, Manisa [Turkey] Public Library MS 1705, fols. 59–90a. |
| KMK |
al-Fārābī, Kitāb al-Mūsīqī al-kabīr, ed. Ghaṭṭās ʿAbd al-Malik Khashaba. Rev. and intro. Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Ḥifnī, Cairo 1967. |
| L |
Leiden |
| MA I, II |
al-Fārābī, Kitābu l-Mūsīqī al-kabīr, trans. d’Erlanger, La Musique arabe, 2 vols. Paris 1930, 1935. |
| MA III |
Mawlānā Mubārak Shāh, Sharḥ Mawlānā Mubārak Shāh bar Adwār. Les Commentaires de Mawlānā Mubārak Shāh sur le Kitāb al-Adwār de Ṣafī l-Dīn al-Urmawī: La Musique arabe, vol. 3, trans. B.R. d’Erlanger, Paris 1938. |
| MA IV |
al-Shirwānī, Fatḥallāh, Risāla fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī, Traité anonyme dédié au Sultan Osmānlī Muḥammad II (15th. Century), La Musique arabe, vol. 4, trans. B.R. d’Erlanger, Paris 1939. |
| N |
al-Urmawī, Kitāb al-Adwār, Istanbul: Nuruosmaniye MS, Ahmet III 3653, fols. 72–90. |
| N-KI |
al-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr (d. 339/950), Die Theorie vom Īqāʿ. I: Übersetzung des Kitāb al-Īqāʿāt von Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī, ed. E. Neubauer, in Oriens 21–22 (1968–1969), 196–232. |
| N-KII |
al-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr (d. 339/950), Die Theorie vom Īqāʿ. II: Übersetzung des Kitāb Iḥṣāʾ al-Īqāʿāt von Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī, ed. E. Neubauer, in Oriens 34 (1994), 103–173. |
| N-KMK |
al-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr (d. 339/950), Die Theorie vom Īqāʿ. III: Al-Fārābī, die arabischen “Praktiker” und Franco von Köln. Mit einer Übersetzung des Kapitel über die musikalische Metrik aus al-Fārābī’s “Grossem Buch der Musik.” |
| O. |
Ouesley 385 |
| Or. |
British Library MS Or. 2361; 9247 |
| OrAd |
Kitāb al-Adwār, British Library MS Or. 2361, fols. 29a–31b. |
| Sh. |
al-Kātib, al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad, Kitāb Kamāl adab al-ghināʾ, trans. A. Shiloah, La Perfection des connaissances musicales. Kitāb adab al-ġināʾ, Bibliothèque d’études islamiques, vol. 5, Paris 1972. |
| Sawa |
Sawa, G.D., Musical and socio-cultural anecdotes from Kitāb al-Aghānī l-Kabīr: Annotated translations and commentaries, Leiden and Boston 2019. |
| Sawa, Glossary |
Sawa, G.D., An Arabic musical and socio-cultural glossary of Kitāb al-Aghānī, Leiden and Boston 2015. |
| ShAn |
Anonymous, Sharḥ li l-Adwār, British Library MS Or. 2361, fols. 60a–67a. |
| ShM |
Anonymous, Risālat Sharḥ Mubārak Shāh bar adwār, British Library MS Or. 2361, fols. 135b–143b. |
| ShNP |
al-Shīrāzī, Durrat al-Tāj, ed. Naṣr Allāh Nāṣiḥ Pūr, Tehran 1387/1967. |
| TBJ |
al-Marāghī, Jāmiʿ al-alḥān, ed. Taqī Bīnesh, Tehran 1987. |
| TBM |
al-Marāghī, Maqāṣid al-alḥān, ed. Taqī Bīnesh, Tehran 1977. |
| TBSh |
al-Marāghī, Sharḥ-e Adwār, ed. Taqī Bīnesh, Tehran 1991. |
| W Br. |
The Brethen of Purity translated by Owen Wright |
| W Br. Ar. |
The Brethen of Purity, Arabic text in Owen Wright’s translation |
| ZGAIW |
Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften. |
| ZYK |
Al-Kātib’s Kamāl abad al-ghināʾ ed. Zakariyyā Yūsuf, al-Mawrid, II: April 1 (1973), 101–154. |