# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abu-al-faraj-al-isfahani
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:47:07.841Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/abu-al-faraj-al-isfahani"
name: "Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani"
slug: "abu-al-faraj-al-isfahani"
description: "Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī, also known as Abul-Faraj, was a writer, historian, genealogist, poet, musicologist and scribe. He was of Arab-Quraysh origin and mainly based in Baghdad. He is best known as the author of Kitab al-Aghani, which includes information about the earliest attested periods of Arabic music and the lives of poets and musicians from the pre-Islamic period to al-Isfahani's time. Given his contribution to the documentation of the history of Arabic music, al-Isfahani is characterised by George Sawa as \"a true prophet of modern ethnomusicology\"."
tagline: "Arab historian, writer, poet and musicologist (897–967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kitab_al-Aghani_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "897"
deathDate: "0967-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.756548536209553
  historical:           23.099864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump