Big Congrats to Professor Dwight Reynolds!
His book Medieval Arab Music and Musicians has just won the 2025 Mediterranean Seminar Prize for Best Translation!
This OpenAccess gem by De Gruyter Brill features fully annotated English translations of three of the most important medieval Arabic texts on music and musicians — including intimate biographies from the courts of Baghdad and Córdoba, and the earliest treatise on the Andalusi muwashshaḥ genre.
Expect tales of musical genius, rivalries, romantic escapades, slave-singer markets, tavern nights, courtly intrigues, and much more — all straight from some of the earliest musician biographies in world literature.
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👉 https://brill.com/display/title/61295
Read an interview with the author
👉 https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/43948
Official announcement
👉 https://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/book-prize-2025?p