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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Kurdish singers, Ziryab, Zakaria Abdulla, Muhamad Salih Dilan, Chopy Fatah, Ahmet Kaya, brahim Tatl ses, Ardavan Kamkar, ivan Perwer, Jamshid, Kayhan Kalhor, Adnan Karim, The Kamkars, Ciwan Haco, Dashni Murad, Mazhar Khaleqi, Dilba, Aynur Do an, Hassan Zirak, Ardeshir Kamkar, Ghader Abdollahzadeh, Hooshang Kamkar, Ghashang Kamkar, Ali Serhat Baran, Blend Saleh, Bijan Kamkar, Ali Akbar Moradi, Merziye Feriqi, Ebdo Mihemed, Ali Merdan, Aram Tigran, Dilshad Said, Morad Kaveh, Arsalan Kamkar, Pashang Kamkar, Hozan Cane, Saeed Farajpouri, Tara Jaff, Arjang Kamkar, Nizamettin Aric, Hasret Gultekin, Rojda Aykoc, Karapete Xaco, Mohammad Mamle, Issa Hassan, Ay e an, Gani Mirzo, ehribana Kurdi, Rojhan Beken, Tahir Tewfiq, Bahram and Bashir. Excerpt: Abu l-Hasan 'Ali Ibn Nafi' (Persian and Arabic: Kurdish: ) (c. 789-857), nicknamed Ziryab (Persian language: Zaryab, Kurdish: Zorab), was a Persian or Kurdish polymath: a poet, musician, singer, cosmetologist, fashion designer, trendsetter, strategist, astronomer, botanist and geographer. He was active at the Umayyad court of Cordoba in Islamic Iberia. He first achieved notoriety at the Abbasid court in Baghdad, Iraq, his birth place, as a performer and student of the great musician and composer, Ishaq al-Mawsili. Ziryab was a gifted pupil of Ishaq al-Mawsili. He had to leave Baghdad when his skills as a musician surpassed those of his teacher. He moved to Cordoba in southern Iberian Peninsula and was accepted as court musician in the court of Abd al-Rahman II of the Umayyad Dynasty (822-52). The occupation of Persia by Muslim Arabs in the 7th century had exposed the Arab invaders to the richness of the Persian way of life, including music. As the Islamic armies conquered more and more countries in the centuries tha...
