Owen Wright provides a critical edition of the text itself, together with a glossary, prefaced by an introduction and a detailed commentary and analysis. The introduction provides immediate context, situating the work in relation to the dominant theoretical tradition of the period and providing biographical information about the author, active in Cairo during the first half of the fourteenth century.
Owen Wright is Research Professor of Musicology of the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is also the author of Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective and Demetrius Cantemir: The Collection of Notations.