myeyes2020 - 4-14-2011 at 02:21 PM
Too bad this pdf is in arabic. Perhaps our Arabic reading members may find it useful.
http://www.4shared.com/get/ceqmYd40/___.html
Alfaraby - 4-14-2011 at 11:35 PM
The link is not working !
Pls. upload here as an attachment
Thank you very much
Yours
Alfaraby
abusin - 4-15-2011 at 01:04 AM
Thanks My friend,
I managed to download the whole book via your link,
Although it doesn't have musical notes for the maqams discussed but it is a good reference to maqams.
Alfaraby try it again, if it doesn't work give us a shout I can try and forward it to as an attachment.
Thanks again myeyes2020
myeyes2020 - 4-15-2011 at 05:57 PM
You're welcom Awad!
Alfaraby,
It seems that the file is 9.23Mb which is too large to attach.
here is another link for you which will expire in a week
https://www.yousendit.com/download/VnBxZEV4bEEwZ2xjR0E9PQ
Adel
ALAMI - 4-16-2011 at 07:44 AM
It seems that this book is about the poetry form of Maqamat.
It has nothing to do with music
Maqamat are funny long poems where the poet travels from one region to the other, troubadour style, the most known being maqamat Badih Al Zaman Al
Hamadhani and Maqamat Al Hariri.
Maqamat are considered as a less noble and more popular form of poetry.
abusin - 4-16-2011 at 07:59 AM
Slam all,
You're correct Alami this is, and as referred to in the book are Asfar "travels", when I made my comments yesterday I was at work and didn't have a
chance to go through the book and was optimistic rather 
from the picture of
the oud and references to maqams I thought its the musical maqams 
).
my apology's guys, but anyway its a good read about the old art of travel and poetry in those old shiny days of the Arabian heritage 
myeyes2020 - 4-16-2011 at 09:09 AM
sorry guys,
i dont read Arabic fluently so i was too lazy to verifiy the subject matter. just assumed. hopefully someone finds it interesting anyway.
Adel