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Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Isa ibn Hasan al-Baghdadi (), known as Ibn Kurr () (d. 1357 CE), was a musical theorist of medieval Islam. He is the author of ''Ġāyat al-matḷūb fī 'ilm al-adwār wa-'l-dụrūb'' (''The Enticing Roads to Rhythms and Modes''), a work on the musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the 14th century CE. He was born in Cairo to an Iraqi refugee family.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ibn Kurr Musical theorists of the medieval Islamic world Writers from Cairo 14th-century Arabic-language writers 1357 deaths Date of death unknown Scholars from the Mamluk Sultanate