Ibn Abi al-Dunya

Abdullah ibn Muhammad, known by his epithet of Ibn Abi al-Dunya (AH 207/8–281, 823–894 CE) was a Muslim scholar.[1][2] During his lifetime, he served as a tutor to the Abbasid caliphs, al-Mu'tadid (861–902) and his son, al-Muktafi (878–908).[3]

Ibn Abi al-Dunya's treatise on music, Dhamm al-malālī ('Condemnation of the malāhī'), is believed by Amnon Shiloah (1924–2014) to have been the first systematic attack on music from Islamic scholarship, becoming 'a model for all subsequent texts on the subject'. His understanding of malāhī, as constituting not just "instruments of diversion" but also musics forbidden and for the purposes of amusement only, was an interpretation that 'guided all subsequent authors who dealt with the question of the lawfulness of music'.[3]

Works
  • A Maqtal al-Husayn retelling the story of the battle of Karbala
  • "Al-sabq wa al-ramī" on Furusiyya martial
  • Dhamm al-malālī - An essay of strong opposition to music.
  • Kitab al-Manam[4]
  • Sifat al-nar, discusses hellfire and the punishments unbelievers and sinners will face.

See also

References
  1. Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index 2006 0415966914 "Ibn Abi al-Dunya (d. AH 281/894 CE) may be considered ... about death and the next world (Kitab al-Manam [The Book of Dreams] ). "
  2. Jonathan Glustrom Katz Dreams, Sufism, and Sainthood: The Visionary Career of ... 1996 9004105999 p.219
  3. Shiloah, Amnon (1997). "Music and religion in Islam". Acta Musicologica, 69. 2: 143–155.
  4. Katz "The Book of Dreams [Kitab al-Manam] by Ibn Abi al-Dunya (Introduction and Text)," (Ph.D. diss., Michigan, 1977)"


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