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IBRAHIM

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 223 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
IBRAHIM AL-MAU$ILI (742-804), Arabian
singer
 , was born of Persian parents settled in Kufa. In his early years his parents died and he was trained by an uncle. Singing, not study, attracted him, and at the age of twenty-three he fled to Mosul, where he joined a band of wild youths. After a year he went to Rai (Rei, Rhagae), where he met an
ambassador
  of the
caliph
  Mansur, who enabled him to come to Basra and take singing lessons. His fame as a
singer
  spread, and the
caliph
  Mandi brought him to the
court
 . There he remained a favourite under Hadi, while Harun al-Rashid kept him always with him until his death, when he ordered his son (Ma'mun) to say the
prayer
  over his corpse. Ibrahim, as might be expected, was no strict Moslem. Two or three times he was knouted and imprisoned for excess in wine-drinking, but was always taken into favour again. His
powers
  of song were far beyond anything else known at the time. Two of his pupils, his son Ishaq and Muhariq, attained celebrity after him.
See the
Preface
  to W. Ahlwardt's Abu Nowas (Greifswald, 1861), pp. 13-18, and the many stories of his
life
  in the Kitab ul-Aghani, V. 2-49. (G. W. T.)


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