Abu l-Hasan 'Ali Ibn Nafi', better known as Ziryab, Zeryab, or Zaryab (c. 789–c. 857)[2] (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي ابن نافع, زریاب), was a singer, oud and lute player, composer, poet, and teacher who lived and worked in what is now Iraq, Northern Africa and Andalusia during the medieval Islamic period. He was also a polymath, with knowledge in astronomy, geography, meteorology, Botanics, cosmetics, culinary art and fashion.
His nickname "Ziryab", comes from the Persian word for jay-bird زرياب,[3] pronounced "Zaryāb". He was also known as Mirlo ('blackbird') in Spanish.[2] He was active at the Umayyad court of Córdoba in Islamic Iberia. He first achieved fame at the Abbasid court in Baghdad, his birthplace, as a performer and student of the musician and composer Ibrahim al-Mawsili.
Ziryab was a gifted pupil of Ibrahim al-Mawsili in Baghdad, where Ziryab got his beginner lessons. However, he left Baghdad during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun and moved to Córdoba, where he was accepted as a court musician in the court of Abd ar-Rahman II of the Umayyad Dynasty.
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Abu l-Hasan 'Ali Ibn Nafi', better known as Ziryab, Zeryab, or Zaryab (c. 789–c. 857) (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي ابن نافع, زریاب), was a singer, oud and lute...
probably evolved under the Moors in Cordoba, and the Persian-born musician Ziryab is usually credited with its invention. A genre known as Contemporary Andalusian...
musical modes. His work was based on the music of Ziryab, the court musician of Andalusia. Ziryab was a renowned polymath, whose contributions to western...
without significant changes. In eighth-century Moorish Spain, the musician Ziryab introduced to Córdoba[unreliable source] sophisticated clothing styles based...
five pairs of strings, d, e, a, d', g'. Historical sources indicate that Ziryab (789–857) added a fifth string to his oud. He was well known for founding...
Yahya ibn Aktham, Muslim jurist Zheng Lang, chancellor of the Tang dynasty Ziryab, Muslim poet and musician (b. 789) Treadgold 1997, pp. 450–451. Treadgold...
Parsons (born 1949), American wrestler who used the ring name "The Blackbird" Ziryab (789–857), Kurdish musician and performer, whose name means "blackbird"...
clogged with the sick. Lu Shang, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 859) Ziryab, Muslim poet and musician (d. 857) February 20 – Leo of Catania, saint and...
Emirate of Cordoba (Al-Andalus) in the 9th century. Born and raised in Iraq, Ziryâb (d. 857), who later became court musician of Abd al-Rahman II in Cordoba...
ISBN 9780521779333. Davila, Carl (2009). "Fixing a Misbegotten Biography: Ziryab in the Mediterranean World". Al-Masaq: Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean...
century, Ziryab invented a type of deodorant. He also promoted morning and evening baths, and emphasized the maintenance of personal hygiene. Ziryab is thought...
of Harun al-Rashid (786–809) by Kashmiri merchants and to Al-Andalus by Ziryab. In the Mamluk era, Cairo was the world's largest producer of velvet. Much...
music was greatly influenced by Ziryab, a freed Persian slave and musical pioneer, in the early 9th century. After Ziryab's death, two new styles of Arabic...
Cinematography Reghu Shanker Music by Rusho Mahtab Production company Ziryab Films Distributed by Ziryab Films Guangzhou Fashion Industry Culture Development Co. Ltd...
Kassala-Musha'sha', 1937. Suppl. No.4. Musha'sha'-Taghlib, 1937. Suppl. No.5. Taghlib-Ziryab, 1938. M. Th. Houtsma, R. Basset et T. W. Arnold, eds., Encyclopédie de...
roots of the Malouf can be traced to a court musician from Baghdad named Ziryab. He was expelled from the city in 830, and traveled west, stopping finally...
Kundra Bilal Khan Production company Onai Entertainment Distributed by Ziryab Films Release dates 15 April 2015 (2015-04-15) (Los Angeles) 29 May 2015 (2015-05-29)...
this tradition. Notable literary figures of this period include Ibn Hazm, Ziryab, Ibn Zaydun, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, Ibn Bajja...
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