PERSON

Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Urmawī al-Baghdādī

Name (arabic)

صفي الدين الأرموي البغدادي

Name (translit)

Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Urmawī al-Baghdādī

Alias

Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Urmawī

Died

693H/1294J

Lived in

Notes

Urmawi was the major figure in theoretical music in the thirteenth century. At a young age, he began his service at Abbasid courts in Baghdad; after the fall of the caliphate in 1258, he continued his official service under the Ilkhanids.

Number in MAMS

641

ismi_id

37355

Authored Works

2 works:

MUSIC

al-Risālah al-sharafīyyah fī al-nisab al-taʾlīfiyyah , الرسالة الشرفيّة في النسب التأليفيّة
Kitāb al-adwār fī ʿilm al-mūsīqá , كتاب الأدوار في علم الموسيقى

References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers And Other Scholars Of Islamic Civilisation And Their Works (7Th-19Th C.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 228 (no. 641).