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The Science of Music provides a comprehensive examination of how medieval Baghdad became a transformative center for musical knowledge production. Mohammad Sadegh Ansari traces the sophisticated developments in music theory, acoustics, and the mathematical foundations of sound that emerged during the Islamic Golden Age.
The book demonstrates how Muslim scholars synthesized Greek philosophical traditions with original research to create advanced understanding of musical phenomena. It explores the contributions of key figures and institutions in Baghdad’s intellectual ecosystem, revealing how music was studied as a rigorous scientific discipline alongside mathematics, astronomy, and medicine.
This work challenges Western-centric narratives of music history and highlights the crucial role of Islamic civilization in developing modern scientific approaches to understanding sound and harmony. It remains essential reading for scholars of medieval science, Islamic intellectual history, and the history of music theory.
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