Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
During the rule of Amir Temur, Samarkand, Bukhara and other cities formed the artistic and aesthetic foundation of future interactions and synthesis with Turkic and Persian musical traditions, especially in the sphere of professional music making, maqamat. It is no coincidence that by the middle of the 13th century maqamat had become the art of the united Muslim civilization, combining various ethnic traditions. The need to develop a general theory and canons of an all-Muslim maqamat stimulated the growth of Persian musical science (‘ilm-i musiqi, ‘ilm-i advar), which went on to experience a real flowering under the Timurids in Herat.
The research works of the outstanding musician, music theorist, poet and reader of the Koran and head of Amir Temur’s court, Khoja ‘Abd al-Qadir Maraghi (died in 1435 in Herat) played an exceptionally crucial role in its development.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Musical Legacy of Uzbekistan in Collections of the Russian Federation" (Volume VI) from the series "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
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