The Book of Songs (excerpts from Volumes 8, 11, 13, 16, 19) Translator/Editor: George Dimitri Sawa (a leading scholar on early Arabic music and social history) Published in: Rhythmic Theories and Practices in Arabic Writings, 2009 (and earlier as standalone translations in journals like Journal of the American Oriental Society and Asian Music ).
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The complete work remains untranslated into English. The only full translation of a work of this scale exists in (partial, by various orientalists in the 19th century) and French (select volumes). No publisher has yet undertaken the monumental financial and scholarly commitment required to translate all 24+ volumes into English. Because no complete English edition exists, any site