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 classical music
• Turkish makam, a Turkish system of melody types
• List of Turkish makams
• Mukamlar, a Turkmen repertoire
• 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

• Phrygian dominant scale, sometimes called the hijaz maqam
• Rast (maqam)

Other uses

• Maqam (shrine), a tomb of a Muslim holy person
• Maqam (Sufism), any spiritual stage in the Sufi path
• Bandar-e Moqam, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
• Al-Maqam Mosque, Basra, Iraq
• MAQAM, a US-based production company specializing in Arabic and Middle Eastern media

See also

• Maqamat (disambiguation)
• Muqaam, 2022 Indian film