Ibn Kurr | |
Birth Place: | Cairo |
Death Date: | 1357 CE |
Nationality: | Iraqi |
Occupation: | Musical Theorist |
Notable Works: | Ġāyat al-matḷūb fī 'ilm al-adwār wa-'l-dụrūb |
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Isa ibn Hasan al-Baghdadi, known as Ibn Kurr (d. 1357 CE), was a musical theorist of medieval Islam. He is the author of Ġāyat al-matḷūb fī 'ilm al-adwār wa-'l-dụrūb (The Enticing Roads to Rhythms and Modes), a work on the musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the 14th century CE. He was born in Cairo to an Iraqi refugee family.[1]