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