Ziryab The Maestro of Al-Andalus
This question has never truly been asked in the world: Who was Ziryab?
His given name was Abul Hasan Ali Ibn Nafi, the only son of a Kurdish family from Mosul. Yet history would remember him not by his birth name, but by the title bestowed upon his golden voice: Ziryab. From the banks of the Tigris to the glittering palaces of Córdoba, his journey was not simply the story of a musician but the story of a man whose genius reshaped civilizations. ...