Iranian Arabs - Geber, Harun Al-Rashid, Abu Al-Faraj Al-Isfahani, Al-Ma'mun, Ali AR-Ridha, Sheikh Khaz'al, Baha' Ad-Din Al-Amili, Hossein Kaebi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 121. Not illustrated. Chapters: Geber, Harun Al-Rashid, Abu Al-Faraj Al-Isfahani, Al-Ma'mun, Ali Ar-Ridha, Sheikh Khaz'al, Baha' Ad-Din Al-amili, Hossein Kaebi, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Abu Nuwas, Ibn Al-Nadim, Morteza Ansari, Iraqis in Iran, Samad Marfavi, Ali Badavi, Jalal Kameli Mofrad, Musha'sha'iyyah, Badi' Al-Zaman Al-Hamadani, Ali Mousavi, Ali Shamkhani, Mohsen Araki, Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof, Osamah Sami, Sheikh Jabir Al-Kaabi, Maz'al Khan, Nlma. Excerpt: Ali ibn al-Husayn ul-Isbah n (Arabic: ), also known as Abu-l-Faraj or, in the West, as Abulfaraj (897-967) was an Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kit b al-Agh n . Abu al-Faraj al-I bah n was born in Isfahan, Persia, but spent his youth and made his early studies in Baghdad, Iraq. He was a direct descendant of the last of the Umayyad caliphs, Marwan II, and was thus connected with the Umayyad rulers in Spain, and seems to have kept up a correspondence with them and to have sent them some of his works. He became famous for his knowledge of early Arabian antiquities. His later life was spent in various parts of the Islamic world, in Aleppo with its governor Sayf ad-Dawlah (to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs), in Ray with the Buwayhid vizier Ibn 'Abbad, and elsewhere. Although he wrote poetry, also an anthology of verses on the monasteries of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and a genealogical work, his fame rests upon his Book of Songs (Kitab al-Aghani). Kitab al-Aghani (Book of Songs), a collection of poems and songs with the stories of the composers and singers in many volumes from the oldest epoch of Arabic literature down to the 9th cent. The poems were put to music, but the musical signs are no longer readable. Because of the accompanying biographical annotations on ...