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Zryab |
1. Liquid gold; 2. Clean water; 3. He was a Kurdish musician from Bashik near ancient Nineveh or present-day Mosul. He lived during the Abbasid period. Zryab left the Abbasids in 825 AD and went to Andalusia. Abdulrahman son of Abdulhakim (206-238) made him his friend and gave him many gifts and offerings; Zryab was the son of Ishaq son of Ibrahim of Mosul, who was also a Kurd from Bashik and a great musician; Zryab was an oud player and he added the fifth string of the oud to the instrument; Flamingo music, which has a Kurdish base, is one of the immortal legacies of Zryab, who is also known as Kurdish in Spain. |