Madrid

Collection title

In Zyriab's footsteps

ID

EPT00142

Source

EPTV (DZ)

First broadcast date

08/16/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

Abu-Al-Hassan Ali Ben Nafi, also known as Zyriab (789-857) was born in Mosul (Iraq), and he died in Cordova. He studied and improved his talents as a singer and a musician in Baghdad. After a short stay in Tunisia, he settled in Cordova in 822,in the court of the Omeyad Emir Abd al-Rahman II. He was one of the leading figures in the history of the arab- andalusian music in the ninth century. He introduced the Oud (Arabic Luth) in Andalusia after he had added a fifth string. It is that luth which later spread in the rest of Europe. Through several halts we discover the arab music and its influence on the western one. “In Zyriab’s tracks” stops, in this episode, in Madrid, Spain.

Type

video

Production companies

• EPTV - Own production

Broadcaster

EPTV - 1st national channel

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Music and songs

Secondary themes

• Historical heritages / Arab and muslim worlds

Credits / Cast

• Sekkar Abdelkrim - Journalist

Period of events

• From 500 to 1000

Map locations

• Spain - Centre - Madrid

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

29m59

Additional information