Abd al-Qadir al-Maraghi

• Name — 'Abd al-Qadir al-Maraghi • Native Name — عبدالقادر غیبی مراغی • Birth Name — 'Abd al-Qadir al-Maraghi ibn Ghaybi • Birthplace — Maragh, Timurid Empire • Died — 1435 • Place of death — Herat, Timurid Empire

Abd al-Qadir al-Maraghi ibn Ghaybi was born Maragh of the Timurid Empire during the mid 14th century, to a Persian family.[1] He had become one of the court minstrels of the Jalayirid Sultan al-Husayn around 1379. Under Sultan Ahmad Jalayirid, he was appointed the chief court minstrel. When Timur captured Baghdad in 1393, he was transported to Samarqand, which was the capital of the Timurid dynasty. In 1399, he was in Tabriz at the service of Timur's wayward son Miran Shah. Abdl al-Qadir was blamed for the erratic conduct of Miranshah, and Timur acted swiftly in order to capture him. But Abd al-Qadir was forewarned and escaped to the Jalayrid court of Sultan Ahmad in Baghdad. Timur again recaptured Baghdad in 1401 and took Abd al-Qadir back to Samarqand. Abd al-Qadir became one of the brilliant men at the court of Timur's son, Shahrukh. In 1421, he also wrote a musical treatise (see below) for the Ottoman Sultan Murad II. He died in Samarqand in 1435.[2]

Al-Maraghi not only wrote songs in the Persian Language, but also in Arabic, Mongolian, Turkish (Khatai, Chagatay) as well as various regional Iranian dialects (Fahlaviyyat) of Hamadan, Mazandaran, Qazvin, Tabriz, and Rayy.[3] Thus his work gives us a better view of the regional dialects of Iran. Four quatrains titled fahlaviyyat from Khwaja Muhammad Kojjani (d. 677/1278-79); born in Kojjan or Korjan, a village near Tabriz, recorded by Abd al-Qadir al-Maraghi. A sample of one of the four quatrains from Khwaja Muhammad Kojjani. Two qet'as (poems) quoted by Abd al-Qadir Maraghi in the dialect of Tabriz (d. 838/1434-35; II, p. 142). A sample of one of these poems Six Centuries, Six Years is a film made by a prominent filmmaker, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb which depicts a group of Iranian master musicians' efforts to identify, preserve, and record a collection of compositions by Abd al-Qadir Maraghi.[5] The film won several awards including the Best Documentary Film from 12th Action On Film (AOF) International Film Festival, L.A., USA, in 2016 and Best Documentary Film from 6th London Iranian Film Festival, UK, in 2015.[6]

• A kâr (second movement), attributed to 15th century composer Abd-al Qadir Maraghi • Abd al-Qadir Maraghi - عبدالقادر مراغهایs • 1=Anwar, on the footsteps of Maraghi (Ensemble Maraghi and Sepideh Raissadat)