Maqam
Appearance
Maqam, makam, maqaam or maqām (plural maqāmāt) may refer to:
Musical structures
[edit]- 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 classical music
- Turkish makam, a Turkish system of melody types
- Muqam, a melody type from Uyghur culture
- Mugham, a music tradition of Azerbaijani cultures
- Shashmaqam ("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
[edit]Other uses
[edit]- Maqam (shrine), a tomb of a Muslim holy person
- Maqam (Sufism), any spiritual stage in the Sufi path
- Maqam, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
- Al-Maqam Mosque, Basra, Iraq
- MAQAM, a US-based production company specializing in Arabic and Middle Eastern media