1st Edition
Music Theory in Mamluk Cairo The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-’l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr
Biography
Owen Wright is Research Professor of Musicology of the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is also the author of Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective and Demetrius Cantemir: The Collection of Notations.
“Author of numerous books, book chapters, and articles on related topics, Wright has deep mastery of all the major treatises written in the centuries both before and after Ibn Kurr’s treatise (in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish).” - Scott Marcus, University of California, Santa Barbara
“This edition has been fastidiously prepared. The Philology is near impeccable. Wright has done a superb job of deciphering a codex that demands considerable guesswork (words without dots).” – Li Guo, University of Notre Dame
