Quote by Al-Farabi: “Music ennobles the soul; it alone can lift the heart above ordinary feeling.”

Music does something to us that no other art form quite achieves — it reaches past our defences and elevates how we feel, connecting us to experiences of beauty and emotion that everyday life keeps just out of reach.

Al-Farabi wrote during the Abbasid Caliphate's cultural golden age, when Baghdad was the world's largest city and a global centre of translation, scholarship, and arts. He worked in a tradition that treated music not merely as entertainment but as a branch of philosophy and mathematics.

Turkic philosopher, mathematician, and music theorist born around 872 CE in Farab, in present-day Kazakhstan, known as the Second Teacher after Aristotle in the Islamic philosophical tradition. His Grand Book of Music laid the theoretical foundations for understanding music in the medieval Islamic world.