Abu Ali Ibn Sina’s Contribution to the Development of Classical Music

Abstract

Music has an important and weighty place in the rich scientific heritage of the great thinker Abu Ali Ibn Sina. Ibn Sina positively assimilated the works of the Greek philosophers Aristotle, Ptolemy, Euclid, as well as Eastern scientists Khorezmi, Kindi and Farabi, and created an independent doctrine in the science of music. The importance of Ibn Sina’s teaching, which was incomparable in its time in terms of the breadth and depth of the issues raised, is not limited to the period, but it is also important in the further development of Eastern and Western music.