ABSTRACT
Arriving in Central Asia, with the Uzbek-Tajik maqām traditions we first find the practice of referring to a set number of fixed maqām suites: the Bukharan Shash (six) Maqām, the Khorezm Alti-Yarim (six and a half) Maqām3 and the Khoqand Chahar (four) Maqām (Karomatov 1992). Slightly to the south, Kashmiri Sufi orders perform maqām suites known collectively as Sūfyāna Mūsīqī (Pacholczyk 1996).4 Finally, the easternmost occurrence of the term maqām in yet another variant spelling: the Kashgar-Yärkänd Twelve Muqam (now nationalised as the Uyghur Twelve Muqam), the Turpan Muqam (with eleven recognised suites), the Dolan Muqam (reliably only nine suites, although both these traditions like to claim a full complement of twelve), and the Qumul Muqam (which makes extravagant claims to fifteen).
