An Expression of Cultural Identity
There is no record of what Safi al-Din played to Hulagu Khan in the late winter of 1258 in Baghdad, as the Mongol ruler's troops laid waste to the cultural metropolis of the Islamic world. The learned Oud virtuoso appears to have approved of the choice of repertoire though, as the musician survived both the mass murder of his fellow citizens as well as the concert unscathed.

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