Abu Ahmad Yahya ibn Ali ibn Yahya ibn Abi Mansur Aban al-Monajjem
( ar, ابواحمد یحیی ابن علی ابن یحیی ابن ابی منصور آبان المنجم) (b. 241/855-56, died in 13 Rabi' I 300/29 October 912) was a medieval
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
music theorist, literary historian and poet. He belonged to the family of
Banu Munajjem, a family of Iranian descent, associated with the
Abbasid court for more than two centuries.
His father 'Alī ibn Yaḥyā al-Munajjim (died 888) was a student of the renowned musician
Ishaq al-Mawsili
Ishaq al-Mawsili ( ar, إسحاق الموصلي; 767/772 – March 850) was an Arab musician of Persian origin active as a composer, singer, music theorist and writer on music. The leading musician of his time in the Abbasid Caliphate, he served ...
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He is mainly famous for a treatise on music, ''Resāla fi’l-mūsīqī'' written for
Al-Mu'tadid
Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa al-Muwaffaq ( ar, أبو العباس أحمد بن طلحة الموفق), 853/4 or 860/1 – 5 April 902, better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh ( ar, المعتضد بالله, link=no, ...
. His other famous work, of equal importance, is a compilation of biographies with some poetry named ''Ketāb al-bāher fī aḵbār šoʿarāʾ moḵażramī al-dawlatayn''. He was highly praised by
Al-Marzubani as a decent poet. He was well-versed in Arabic language, and he it is said that he wrote many books, though even the name of those books are not known today.
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Persian Arabic-language poets
9th-century Persian-language poets
10th-century Persian-language poets
9th-century Persian-language writers
10th-century Persian-language writers
Iranian music theorists