Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī

Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī

▪ Muslim scholar
in full  Abū Al-faraj ʿalī Ibn Al-ḥusayn Al-qurashī Al-iṣbahānī , also called  Al-iṣfahānī 
born 897, Isfahan, Iran
died November 20, 967, Baghdad

      literary scholar who composed an encyclopaedic and fundamental work on Arabic song, composers, poets, and musicians.

      Abū al-Faraj was a descendant of Marwān II, the last Umayyad caliph of Syria. Despite the enmity of this family and the ʿAlids, he was a Shīʿite Muslim, upholding the rights of the descendants of the Prophet Muḥammad's son-in-law ʿAlī to the caliphate. He spent most of his life in Baghdad where he enjoyed the patronage of the Būyid amīrs.

      Kitāb al-aghānī (“The Book of Songs”), his major work, contains songs, biographical information, and much information concerning the life and customs of the early Arabs and of the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad and ʿAbbāsid periods.

      Abū al-Faraj also wrote Maqātil aṭ-Ṭālibīyīn wa-akhbaruhum (“The Slaying of the Ṭālibīs”), comprising biographies of the Shīʿah martyrs descended from ʿAlī and his father, Abu Ṭālib.

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