Jomal al-Falsafeh: Maqaleh-ye Chaharom darbareh Musiqi-ye Irani

• Persian Title: جمل‌ الفلسفه: مقاله چهارم درباره موسیقی
• Transliterated Title: Jumal al-Falsafah: al-Maqālah al-Rābiʿah fī al-Mūsīqā
• English Title: Jumal al-Falsafah: The Fourth Treatise on Music
• Author: Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Hindī (active in 533 A.H.)
• Editor: Sayyid Muḥammad-Taqī Ḥusaynī
• Language: Arabic (with Persian translation)
• ISBN: 978-600-203-259-1
• Publication Year: 2021
• Pages: 150
• Format: PDF
• Category: Treatises / Philosophy and Music
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 373

【Summary】

Jumal al-Falsafah is a unique early encyclopedic work covering a wide range of sciences, completed in 529 A.H. by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Hindī. Structured in seven treatises written in a question-and-answer format, it addresses philosophy, geometry, astronomy, music, logic, natural science, and metaphysics.
The fourth treatise is devoted entirely to music theory and constitutes one of the earliest systematic discussions of music in the Islamic intellectual tradition. The present volume offers a critical edition of this musical section along with a Persian translation. Owing to the exceptional importance of the work and the survival of the author’s autograph manuscript, a facsimile of the musical section is included at the end of the volume.