Abd al-Qādir al-Marāghī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Blum, Stephen
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Marāghī b. Ghaybī (d. 838/1435) was the most important Persian writer on music, also a composer, lutenist, poet, painter, and calligrapher. A boon companion of the Jalāʾirid Sulṭān Ḥusayn, in 781/1379 he composed for him a new nawbah , or suite, for each night of Ramaḍān. He became the chief minstrel of the latter's successor, Sulṭān Aḥmad (r. 784-813/1382-1410). He was among the artists and scholars taken to Samarqand following Tīmūr's capture of Baghdad in 795/1393, and by 1399