• P. Adamson, Al-Kindī (New York: 2007), ch.7.

• H.G. Farmer, The Sources of Arabian Music (Leiden: 1965).

• P. Horden, Music as Medicine: the History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity (Ashgate: 2000).

• F. Shehadi, Philosophies of Music in Medieval Islam (Leiden: 1995).

• A. Shiloah, Music in the World of Islam (Detroit: 1995).

• G.J. van Gelder and M. Hammond (eds), Takhyīl: The Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics (Warminster: 2008) [for music see the papers by J. Montgomery and Y. Klein]

• O. Wright, “Music and Musicology in the Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’,” in N. El-Bizri (ed.), The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ and their Rasāʾil: an Introduction (Oxford: 2008), 214-47.

• O. Wright, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: On Music (New York: 2010).

Links to the sources and musical groups featured in this episode:

Mike's Ouds

Ensemble de Musique Classique Arabe

Bezmara Ensemble

Ensemble Marāghī