Ishaq al-Mawsili

Ishaq al-Mawsili (Arabic: إسحاق الموصلي‎‎) was a Persian musician of the Abbasid court at the time of Harun al-Rashid. He was born into family of musicians from Kufa in Iraq; his father Ibrahim al-Mawsili held the same position before him.

He was also the teacher of the influential Ziryab, and the contemporary of Mukhariq.

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