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IBRAHIM AL-MAU$See also:

ILI (742-804), Arabian See also:singer, was See also:born of See also:Persian parents settled in See also:Kufa. In his See also:early years his parents died and he was trained by an See also:uncle. Singing, not study, attracted him, and at the See also:age of twenty-three he fled to See also:Mosul, where he joined a See also:band of See also:wild youths. After a See also:year he went to Rai (Rei, Rhagae), where he met an See also:ambassador of the See also:caliph Mansur, who enabled him to come to See also:Basra and take singing lessons. His fame as a singer spread, and the caliph See also:Mandi brought him to the See also:court. There he remained a favourite under Hadi, while See also:Harun al-Rashid kept him always with him until his See also:death, when he ordered his son (Ma'See also:mun) to say the See also:prayer over his See also:corpse. Ibrahim, as might be expected, was no strict Moslem. Two or three times he was knouted and imprisoned for excess in See also:wine-drinking, but was always taken into favour again. His See also:powers of See also:song were far beyond anything else known at the See also:time. Two of his pupils, his son Ishaq and Muhariq, attained celebrity after him. See the See also:Preface to W. Ahlwardt's See also:Abu Nowas (Greifswald, 1861), pp.

13-18, and the many stories of his See also:

life in the Kitab ul-Aghani, V. 2-49. (G. W.

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