Jamīl ‘Uways

Biography

Jamil Uways was a Syrian violinist, composer and music notator who worked with Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab and Umm Kulthum.

Lagrange describes orchestral recordings of Uways’s and Mansur Awad’s compositions as a modernist direction in the record industry.

His compositions appear in music teaching: a Damietta University Music Education Department examination list names Sama‘i Nawa Athar by Jamil Uways among third-year oud materials. Students are asked to explain performance, maqam and modulations in the studied pieces. The document establishes the work’s use in that teaching list, without dating its composition.