Arib al-Mamun’iya was likely the most famous of the qiyān (“kee-YAN”), or enslaved female singers, during this caliphate. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this caliphate that overthrew the Umayyads.
ANSWER: Abbasid Caliphate [or al-Khilāfah al-ʿAbbāsiyyah]
[10m] Arib destroyed the qayna (“KYE-na”) Shariya in a music contest while in this city, which replaced Baghdad as the Abbasid capital under al-Mu’tasim. Al-Muttawikkil commissioned this city’s Great Mosque.
ANSWER: Samarra
[10h] Arib learned music in this city, where the secret philosophical society Brethren of the Purity published musical theory. This city’s Grammarians had a rivalry with grammarians from Kufah.
ANSWER: Basra [or al-Basrah]
<Emmett Laurie, World History>