Al-Aghānī, Kitāb (The Book of Songs), is a work by Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Iṣfahānī (284–ca. 362/897–ca. 973) (q.v.) which has been acclaimed as one of the great Arabic literary masterpieces. However, the surviving text is by no means free of ambiguities due to the various additions, deletions and fab…