Allawayh al-Asar

Allawayh al-Asar (or Alluya; flourished c. 800–854) was a singer of Sogdian origin at the Abbasid court of Harun al-Rashid and his successors. His grandfather, a captive from Sogdia, was a "freedman" (mawla) in Ummayad times. Allawayh al-Asar was a student of Ibrahim al-Mawsili; in contemporaneous sources he, Ishaq al-Mawsili (son of Ibrahim al-Mawsili) and Mukhariq were often mentioned together. Allawayh was fond of the style introduced by Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi, and, according to D. M. Dunlop: "Perhaps we are to see in his introduction of Persian elements into the old Arabic music some indication of national preference". However, by the following century, according to the Kitab al-Aghani, the so-called "traditionalist views" of Ishaq al-Mawsili "held the field".

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