Habib Hassan Touma (Arabic: حبيب حسن توما) (12 December 1934 – 10 August 1998) was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist who lived and worked for many years in Berlin, Germany.
[2] After completing his studies in Tel Aviv, Touma returned to teaching; working in the Ramatayim region at the French Mission School and the American Baptist Children's Village.
[2] Touma authored a number of books, essays and musicological studies on Arabic; Turkish or Iranian music, among them The Music of the Arabs, first published in 1975 in German and translated into several languages.
[4] Among other studies based on his field work in Arabic countries, he published a description and photographs of the Work Songs of the Gulf Pearl Divers of Bahrain.
[5] Another of his studies treated the Arabic musical influence on the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Al-Andalus.