Maqam, makam, maqaam or maqām (plural maqāmāt) may refer to:

Musical structures

Arabic maqam In traditional Arabic music, maqam (, literally "ascent"; ') is the system of melodic modes, which is mainly melodic. The word ''maqam'' in Arabic means place, location or position. The Arabic ''maqam'' is a melody type. It is "a technique ...

, melodic modes in traditional Arabic music **

Iraqi maqam Iraqi Maqam () is a genre of Arabic maqam music found in Iraq. The roots of modern Iraqi maqam can be traced as far back as the Abbasid Caliphate (8th–13th centuries AD), when that large empire was controlled from Baghdad. The ensemble of ins ...

, a genre of Arabic maqam music found in Iraq *

Persian maqam Persian maqam () is a notion in Persian classical music. Quoting Nooshin, According to Farhat, Persian maqams have also been known in South Asia. The Sanskrit theorist Pundarika Vitthala noted the names of the Persian maqams in his sixteenth ...

, a notion in Persian classical music *

Turkish makam The Turkish makam ( Turkish: ''makam'' pl. ''makamlar''; from the Arabic word ''maqām'' ) is a system of melody types used in Turkish classical music and Turkish folk music. It provides a complex set of rules for composing and performance. Each ...

, a Turkish system of melody types **

List of Turkish makams Here is a list of Turkish makams of Ottoman classical music. Some main makams * Çargah * Buselik * Kürdî * Rast * Saba * Uşşak * Hicaz * Uzzal * Hümayun * Acem * Zirgüleli Hicaz * Neva The Neva ( , ; , ) is a river i ...

Muqam A Muqam (; zh, s=木卡姆, p=Mùkǎmǔ) is the melody type used in the music of the Uyghurs, that is, a musical mode and set of melodic formulas used to guide improvisation and composition. Twelve muqams The twelve muqams are: #Rak (; , ...

, a melody type from Uyghur culture *

Mugham Mugham () or Mughamat () is one of the many classical compositions from Azerbaijan, contrasting with tasnif and ashik. It is an art form that weds classical poetry and musical improvisation in specific local modes. Mugham is a modal system. ...

, a music tradition of Azerbaijani cultures *

Shashmaqam Shashmaqom ( ; ; ) is a Central Asian musical genre (typical of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) which may have developed in the city of Bukhara. Shashmaqam means the six Maqams (modes) in the Persian language, dastgah being the name for Persian m ...

("six maqams"), a musical genre typical of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan * Weekly Maqam, melody types used in weekly prayer services of Sephardic Jewish culture

Individual maqamat

Hijaz (maqam) In music, the Phrygian dominant scale (or the Phrygian ♮3 scale) is the actual fifth mode of the harmonic minor scale, the fifth being the dominant.Dave Hunter (2005). ''Play Acoustic'', San Francisco: Backbeat, p. 226. . It is also called the ...

Rast (maqam) Rast Panjgah (or Rast; ) is the name of a ''dastgah'' (musical mode) in Iranian music and of a ''Arabic maqam, maqam'' in Arabic music, Arabic and related systems of music. ''Rast'' () is a Persian word meaning "right" or "direct". Rast is regarde ...

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Maqam (shrine) A maqām () is a Muslims, Muslim shrine constructed at a site linked to a religious figure or Wali, saint, commonly found in the Levant (or ''al-Shām),'' which comprises the present-day countries of Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Israel. It is ...

, a tomb of a Muslim holy person *

Maqam (Sufism) Maqām ( "station"; plural ''maqāmāt'') refers to each stage a Sufi's soul must attain in its search for God.Gardet, L. "Ḥāl." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Edited by: P. Bearman; , Th. Bianquis; C.E. Bosworth; , E. van Donzel; a ...

, any spiritual stage in the Sufi path *

Maqam, Iran Bandar-e Moqam () is a village in, and the capital of, Moqam Rural District of Shibkaveh District, Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a ...

, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran *

Al-Maqam Mosque Al-Maqam Mosque () is a historic mosque in the city of Basra, Iraq. It is located in the Al-'Ashara region. Description The word in means "shrine", and it is believed that the site was originally a place of shrine, but the views are divided on ...

, Basra, Iraq *

MAQAM Maqam, makam, maqaam or maqām (plural maqāmāt) may refer to: Musical structures * Arabic maqam, melodic modes in traditional Arabic music ** Iraqi maqam, a genre of Arabic maqam music found in Iraq * Persian maqam, a notion in Persian clas ...

, a US-based production company specializing in Arabic and Middle Eastern media

Musical structures

Individual maqamat

Other uses

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