Editing Music theory (section)

====Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries====

* Bāqiyā Nāyinῑ (Uzbekistan, 17th century CE), Uzbek author and music theorist. Author of ''Zamzama e wahdat-i-mῡsῑqῑ'' ["The Chanting of Unity in Music"].<ref name="Shiloah-2003" />
* Baron Francois Rodolphe d'Erlanger (Tunis, Tunisia, 1910–1932&nbsp;CE), French musicologist. Author of ''La musique arabe'' and ''Ta'rῑkh al-mῡsῑqᾱ al-arabiyya wa-usῡluha wa-tatawwurᾱtuha'' ["A History of Arabian Music, its principles and its Development"]

D'Erlanger divulges that the Arabic music scale is derived from the Greek music scale, and that Arabic music is connected to certain features of Arabic culture, such as astrology.<ref name="Shiloah-2003" />