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BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTOR

Henry Farmer

First name

Henry

Last name

Farmer

Bibliography entries by this contributor

Neubauer, Eckhard, and Henry Farmer. 1997. Studies in Oriental Music. 2 vol. Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.
Farmer, Henry. 1965. The Sources of Arabian Music: An Annotated Bibliography of Arabic Manuscripts Which Deal With the Theory, Practice, and History of Arabian Music from the Eighth to the Seventeenth Century. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
al-Fārābī, Abū-Naṣr. 1934. Al-Fārābī’s Arabic-Latin Writings on Music in the Iḥṣā’ Al-’ulūm, De Scientiis, and De Ortu Scientiarum. Ed. Henry Farmer. Glasgow.
Farmer, Henry. 1934. “Yahya B. ʿAli”. In Encyclopaedia Of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936), 4:1150-51. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
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