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MARAGI (pseudo; real name and fam. - Khoja Abdul Kadir ibn Gabi al-Hafiz al-Maraghi) (1353, Maragha - 1437) - Azerb. musician, singer, scientist, theorist. Came from the city of Maraga - one of the scientific and cultural centers of Azerbaijan (hence the pseudo.). He gained great fame in the countries of the Middle and Wed. East as a musician, singer (gyuende) and scientist. The author of muses. treatises “Dzhamy-ul-Elkhan”, “Megasid-ul-Elkhan”, “Scherr-ul-Edvar”, covering some issues of music theory and reflecting modern him muses. practice. Especially valuable is M.'s contribution to the science of music. frets. He is considered the third (after al-Farabi and Abu Ali ibn Sina) master of muses. art of that time. He was a musician at the court of Timur in Samarkand. Certain manuscripts of M. are stored in the Nur Osmaniye and Top Gapi (Turkey), Mashhad (Iran), and Oxford University (Great Britain). Creativity M.attracted the attention of many. Western Europe musicologists, including R. G. Kizevetter, G. J. Farmer and others K. A. Kasimov.