As I was researching my previous book, published last year (The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus, Routledge/Taylor & Franci..
Dwight F. Reynolds
Dwight F. Reynolds is professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Medieval Arab Music and Musicians (2022), The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus (2021), Arab Folklore: A Handbook (2007), and Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (1995), as well as co-editor of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 6 – The Middle East (2002), editor and co-author of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture (2015) and Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (2001). He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork on Andalusian musical traditions in Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria, and is the author of numerous articles on various aspects of Arab music, literature, and culture.