Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Wright, Owen
Leiden
Brill
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Ibrāhīm b. Māhān al-Mawṣilī (125-88/743-804) was one of the most famous musicians of the early ʿAbbāsid period. Born in Kufa of Persian parents, he was raised, after the death of his father, by his mother and her brothers, who disapproved of his musical inclinations, with the result that he seems to have received an eclectic training in both Arabic and Persian traditions during a peripatetic apprenticeship, first in Mosul, then in Rayy and Basra and, eventually, in Baghdad. In Baghdad he came to the attention of