Abu'l-Khattab Muslim ibn Muhriz ( fl. 7th–8th centuries – died c. 757), also called Salm and Abdallah, [1] was a well-known musician and singer of Mecca in Arabia. [2] Of Persian origin, Ibn Muhriz was a freedman ( mawla) of the Banu Abd al-Dar or Banu Makhzum. [1] [2] His father was one of the gatekeepers of the Ka'ba. [1] Ibn Muhriz first studied under Ibn Misdjah and then under Azza al-Mayla. [2] He completed musical education in Iran and Syria. [2] Ibn Muhriz suffered from leprosy, and therefore refrained from appearing much in public. [2] He appears to have been content to have his compositions performed by a slave girl musician. [2] Due to his clinical condition, Ibn Muhriz may have never attended the Umayyad court at Damascus, although a passage written by the 10th-century historian al-Masudi might imply that he was a musician in the retinue of Caliph Al-Walid II ( r. 743–744). [2]
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- Ed. (1971). "Ibn Muḥriz". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. OCLC 495469525.
- Sawa, George Dimitri (2018). "Ibn Muḥriz". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.
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