The Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Un ancien traite sur le 'ud d'Abu Yusuf al Kindi
• The 'ud and the origin of music
• The epistle on music of the Ikhwan al-Safa
• The musical passage in ibn Ezra's 'Book of the Garden'
• Ibn Hindu, le medicin et la musique
• Musical modes and the medical dimension: the Arabic sources (c.900-c.1600)
• Deux textes arabes inedits sur la musique
• Un "probleme musical" inconnu de Thabit ibn Qurra
• The Arabic concept of mode
• Music in the pre-Islamic period as reflected in Arabic writings of the first Islamic centuries
• Techniques of scholarship in medieval Arabic musical treatises
• The attitude towards music of Jewish religious authorities
• The symbolism of music in the Kabbalistic tradition
• La voix et les techniques vocales chez les Arabes
• An 18th-century critic of music and good taste
• Index.