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Introduction to Murṭas and His Three Treatises on the Construction of Ancient Musical Instruments (Including the Critical Edition and Persian Translation of the Treatises from Arabic)
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Elaija Moayer *   , Maryam Eftekhary |
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Murṭas is one of the early scholars whose identity, historical period, and works are subjects of scholarly debate. This article first introduces his three treatises on music and the extant manuscript copies of these works. It also aims to present a critical edition and full translation of Murṭas’s three treatises, with the objective of shedding light on the construction of three ancient musical instruments. Scholars generally attribute the first and second treatises to Murṭas; however, there has been uncertainty regarding the authorship of the third treatise—whether it belongs to Murṭas or to Saʿāṭas. This article establishes that the third treatise, too, should be attributed to Murṭas. Furthermore, since no comprehensive critical edition of these treatises has been published to date, this study introduces five manuscript sources and provides a complete edited version of the texts. As the original texts are in Arabic, all three treatises have been translated into Persian to make the construction methods of these ancient instruments accessible and understandable for Persian-speaking audiences.
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| Keywords: Mūrṭus, Saʿāṭus, Music, The Three Treatises of Murṭas, Construction of Ancient Musical Instruments |
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