This bibliography is dedicated to the systematists (c. 13th-17th century): as usual, not all possible references are included, but a reasonable choice has been made among the available literature.
The Systematists
- Bakrī, Ādil, Ṣafiyy-a-d-Dīn al- Urmawī – Mujaddid al-Mūsīqā al-`Abbāsiyya, Silsilat al-A`lām wa-l Mashhūrīn, Dār al-Ḥurriyya li-ṭ-Ṭibā`a (Baghdad, 1978).
- Beteille, Andre, « Social Organization of Temples in a Tanjore Village », History of Religions (1965), p. 74-92.
- Chabrier, Jean-Claude, « Éléments d’une approche comparative des échelles théoriques arabo-irano-turques », Revue de Musicologie (1985) [doi :10.2307/928593], p. 39-78.
- Davis, Edgar, « Bernard van Dieren », The Musical Quarterly (1938), p. 169-175.
- During, Jean, « Musique, Nation & Territoire en Asie Interieure », Yearbook for Traditional Music (1993) [doi :10.2307/768681], p. 29-42.
- El-Mallah, Issam et Markaz ʻUmān lil-Mūsīqá al-Taqlīdīyah, Arab music and musical notation, Hans Schneider Verlag (1997).
- Elsner, Jürgen, « Zum Problem des maqām », Acta Musicologica (1975) [doi :10.2307/932211], p. 208-239.
- Erlanger, Rodolphe d’, La musique arabe, tome 4: Traité anonyme dédié au Sultan Osmanli Muhammad II (XV e x.), Al-Ladhiqi, Traité al-Fathiyah (XVI e .), Les Geuthner (Paris, France, 2001a).
- Erlanger, Rodolphe d’, La musique arabe, tome 3: Safiyyu-d-Din al-Urmawi, Epitre a Sharafu-d-Din, As-Sharafiyyah, Livre des cycles musicaux, Kitab al-adwar, Les Geuthner (Paris, France, 2001b).
- Ertan, Deniz., « Cycles and Peripheries: An Ottoman Kitâb el Edvâr », Asian Music (2007) [doi :10.1353/amu.2007.0017], p. 31-60.
- Farmer, Henry George, « Clues for the Arabian Influence on European Musical Theory », Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1925), p. 61-80.
- Farmer, Henry George, « Some Musical MSS. Identified », Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1926a), p. 91-93.
- Farmer, Henry George, « The Old Persian Musical Modes », Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1926b), p. 93-95.
- Farmer, Henry George, The sources of Arabian music: an annotated bibliography of Arabic manuscripts which deal with the theory, practice, and history of Arabian music from the eighth to the seventeenth century, E. J. Brill (1965a).
- Farmer, Henry George, « The Old Arabian Melodic Modes », Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1965b), p. 99-102.
- Farmer, Henry George, A history of Arabian music to the XIIIth century, Luzac (1967).
- Farmer, Henry George, Historical facts for the Arabian musical influence, Ayer Publishing (1978).
- Farmer, Henry George, Studies in Oriental music, Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (1997).
- Fezli, Arslan, « THE CONTENT OF AL-RİSÂLA AL-SHARAFİYYA », FSTC (2007).
- Forster, Cris, Musical mathematics : on the art and science of acoustic instruments, Chronicle Books (San Francisco Calif., 2010).
- Gabrieli, Giuseppe, « Fakhr-al-din al-Razi. », Isis (1925), p. 9-13.
- Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān et Abraham Lockett, The miʾut ạmil, and Shurḥoo Miʾut ạmil: two elementary treatises on Arabic syntax, Printed by P. Pereira at the Hindoostanee Press (1814).
- Lādhiqī, Muḥammad ibn `Abd-al-Ḥamīd (al-), A-r-Risāla al-Fatḥiyya (fī-l Mūsīqā), éditeur Hāshim a-r-Rajab, 1er éd., A-s-Silsila a-t-Turāthiyya, Al-Majlis al-`Arabiyy li-t-Turāth wa-l Funūn wa-l Ādāb (Kuwait, 1986).
- Libraries, International Association of Music, RISM: the theory of music in Arabic writings (c. 900-1900) : descriptive catalogue of manuscripts in Libraries of Euroe and the U.S.A., Henle (1979).
- Liu, Benjamin M. et James T. Monroe, Ten Hispano-Arabic strophic songs in the modern oral tradition: music and texts, University of California Press (1989).
- Manzalaoui, Mahmoud, « The Pseudo-Aristotelian “Kitāb Sirr al-asrār”. Facts and Problems », Oriens (1974) [doi :10.2307/1580104], p. 147-257.
- Music, International Council for Traditional, Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music, The Council (1982).
- Myers, Helen, Ethnomusicology: Historical and regional studies, Macmillan (1993).
- Pacholczyk, Jozef, « Music and Astronomy in the Muslim World », Leonardo (1996) [doi :10.2307/1576351], p. 145-150.
- Rāshid, Rushdī et Régis Morelon, Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science, Routledge (1996).
- Riley, Matthew, « Straying From Nature: The Labyrinthine Harmonic Theory of Diderot and Bemetzrieder’s Leçons de clavecin (1771) », The Journal of Musicology (2002), p. 3-38.
- Roper, Geoffrey et Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation (London England), World survey of Islamic manuscripts, Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation (1992a).
- Roper, Geoffrey et Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation (London England), World survey of Islamic manuscripts, Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation (1992b).
- Rouget, Gilbert, Music and trance: a theory of the relations between music and possession, University of Chicago Press (1985).
- Saeed, Abdullah, Islamic thought: an introduction, Taylor & Francis (2006).
- Seydī, Eugenia Popescu-Judetz, إيكهاردنويباور، et أويجينيابوبسكو-يودتس،, Seydī’s book on music: a 15th century Turkish discourse, Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (2004).
- Sezgin, Fuat, éd., Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität (2000).
- Sharif, Mian Mohammad, A history of Muslim philosophy: With short accounts of other disciplines and the modern renaissance in Muslim lands, Harrassowitz (1966).
- Shehadi, Fadlou, Philosophies of music in medieval Islam, BRILL (1995).
- Shirwānī, Fatḥ-al-Lāh (al-), Majalla fī-l-Mūsīqā [MS. 3449, Topkapi (Istanbul), 95 fos], éditeur Eckhard Neubauer, Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften (Frankfurt am Main, 1986).
- Surhone, Lambert M, Mariam T Tennoe et Susan F Henssonow, Safi Al-Din Al-Urmawi, VDM Verlag Dr. Mller AG & Co. Kg (2010).
- Urmawī, ʻAbd et Yale College (1718-1887);Farhangistān-i Hunar-i Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān., Risālah-ʼi sharafīyah, éd. Chāp-i 1., Farhangistān-i Hunar (Tihrān, 2005).
- Urmawī, Ṣafiyy-a-d-Dīn `Abd-a-l-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn (ab-ī-l-Ma)Fākhir (al-), Kitāb al-Adwār – Ketāb al-Advār fi al-Musīqā, éditeur Āryu Rostami (n.d.).
- Urmawī, Ṣafiyy-a-d-Dīn `Abd-a-l-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn (ab-ī-l-Ma)Fākhir (al-), A-r-Risāla a-sh-Sharafiyya fī-n-Nisab a-t-Ta’ālufiyya, éditeur Hāshim a-r-Rajab, Kutub a-t-Turāth 119, Dār a-r-Rashīd li-n-Nashr (Baghdad, 1982).
- Urmawī, Ṣafiyy-a-d-Dīn `Abd-a-l-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn (ab-ī-l-Ma)Fākhir (al-), 1. Kitāb al-Adwār fī-l-Mūsīqā [Livre des cycles musicaux – MS. Istanbul, Nuruosmaniye 3653, fos 1a-49a (1ro-49ro), possiblement autographe] 2. A-r-Risāla a-sh-Sharafiyya fī-n-Nisab a-t-Ta’ālufiyya [L’épître à Sharaf-a-d-Dīn sur les proportions musicales – MS. Ahmet III 3460, fos 1a-68a (1ro-68ro), copie datant de 827H/1424C], éditeur Eckhard Neubauer, Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften (Frankfurt am Main, 1984).
- Urmawī, Ṣafiyy-a-d-Dīn `Abd-a-l-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn (ab-ī-l-Ma)Fākhir (al-), « Kitāb al-Adwār – ljs235 », [d. 1293, XIIIe siècle] (2001) [url : http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljscollection/index.cfm>, http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljs/PageLevel/index.cfm?ManID=ljs235].
- Urmawī, Ṣafiyy-a-d-Dīn `Abd-a-l-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn (ab-ī-l-Ma)Fākhir (al-), Aḥmad al- Ḥifnī et Ghaṭṭās `Abd-al-Malik Khashaba, « Kitāb al-Adwār », [d. 1293, XIIIe siècle] (1986) [url : http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljscollection/index.cfm>, http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljs/PageLevel/index.cfm?ManID=ljs235].
- Wellesz, Egon, Ancient and oriental music, Oxford University Press (1957).
- Widdess, Richard et Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken, Musica Asiatica, Cambridge University Press (1988).
- Wright, Owen, The modal system of Arab and Persian music. A, Oxford Univ, Press (1978).
- Wright, Owen, The modal system of Arab and Persian music: 1250-1300, Univ. Pr. (1981).
- Wright, Owen, « ÇargâH in Turkish Classical Music: History Versus Theory », Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (1990) [doi :10.1017/S0041977X00026057], p. 224-244.
- Wright, Owen, Words Without Songs, Routledge (1992).
- Wright, Owen, « A Preliminary Version of the Kitāb Al-Adwār », Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (1995a) [doi :10.1017/S0041977X00012908], p. 455-478.
- Wright, Owen, « Abd al-Qadir al Maraghi and Ali b. Muhammad Bina’i – two fifteenth century examples of notation », BSOAS (1995b), p. 17-39.
- Wright, Owen, « A Preliminary Version of the “kitāb al-Adwār” », Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1995c), p. 455-478.