Musicians

A

- ‘Abbās Jamil (1928- 2005) [ud]

- ʻAbbās Kādhum Qara Juwayyid (1842-1910) [dumbuk]

- ʻAbbudi Mʻātu [dumbuk]

- ʻAbd al-Aḥad Jarjis [qanun]

- ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ Ḥilmi [ud]

- ‘Abd al-Jabbār Khalil [ud]

- ‘Abd al-Karim Bnayyān al-ʻAzzawi (1960- ) [qanun, dumbuk, ud]

- ʻAbd al-Karim Harbud Jāsim [naqqara, zurna, mitbij]

- ‘Abd al-Latif Sa‘ad al-ʻUbaydi (1981- ) [ud, dumbuk, naqqara]

- ʻAbd al-Razzāq Majid al-Shibli [dumbuk, daff zinjari]

- ‘Abd al-Sami‘ ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq [nay]

- ʻAbdallah ‘Ali (1929-200?) [santur]

- Adib al-Jaff [dumbuk]

- ʻAdil Sattār Jawdat

- ‘Adnān al-Akhwanchi [dumbuk]

- ʻAdnān Muḥammad Nadim [dumbuk]

- ‘Adnān al-Sayyid ‘Ali [nay]

- ‘Adnān Shinān [nay]

- Aḥmed ‘Ali [dumbuk]

- Aḥmed Harbud Jāsim [dumbuk]

- Aḥmed al-Jawādi (1952- ) [violin]

- Aḥmed al-Khalil [ud]

- Aḥmed Mukhtār [ud]

- Aḥmed Yusuf ʻAbbās [joza]

- ʻAlāʼ ʻAbd al-ʻAziz al-Simāwi [qanun]

- ʻAlāʼ Majid [nay]

- Albert Eliās (1926- ) [nay]

- ‘Ali Al-Dabbu [riqq]

- ‘Ali Fākhir [ud]

- ‘Ali Ḥasan (1967- ) [ud]

- ʻAli Ismāʻil Mustafa al-Imām (1944- ) [ud]

- ʻAli Ismāʻil Jāsim [naqqara, daff zinjari, khishba, tabl]

- ‘Ali Kāmil Aḥmed (1962- ) [qanun]

- ‘Ali Maḥmud [nay, violin]

- Amāl Muḥammad [ud]

- ‘Amer al-Bakri [dumbuk]

- Amir al-Saffār (1977- ) [santur, trumpet]

- ‘Ammar Aḥmed al-Saffār (1963- ) [ud]

- Anwar Abu Drāgh (1970- ) [joza, ud]

- ʻAsim al-Chalabi (1952- ) [ud]

- Ayub Ḥusayn [ud]

- Azhar Kubba (1970- ) [santur]

- ʻAziz Gur Pāsha (1862-1910) [dumbuk]

B

- Bahāʼ ‘Abd al-Razzāq [dumbuk]

- Bāhir Hāshim al-Rajab al-ʻUbaydi (1951- ) [santur, qanun]

- Bakra al-Kurdi (18th century) [joza]

- Bashir al-Qas ‘Aziz Jarjis [ud]

- Bāsil al-Jarrāḥ (195?- ) [santur]

- Bāsim Ḥanna Butros (1934- ) [cello]

- Bāsim Maḥmud Hawwār (1972- ) [joza, violin]

- Bāsim Yusuf (1960- ) [ud]

D

- Dākhil Aḥmed ʻArān [joza]

- Dāwud (Efrāim) Akram [violin]

- Dāwud Bassun (19th century) [santur]

- Dāwud ‘Ezrā Yaʻqub al-Kuwaiti (1910-1976) [ud]

- Dāwud Hubi [violin]

- Dhiāʼ Maḥmud Aḥmed al-A‘dhami [daff zinjari]

- Duraid al-Khafāji [ud]

E

- Efrāim Shāʼul Dāwud Bassun (1890-?) [joza]

- Efrāim Patāw [dumbuk, daff zinjari]

- Efrāim Shuta [dumbuk, daff zinjari

- Eliās Shāshā [violin, ud]

- Eliās Zubayda [violin]

- Evin Bahnām (1933- ) [nay]

- ʻEzrā Abu Shaul [qanun]

- ʻEzrā Ahāron al-ʻAwwād (ʻAzzuri Hārun) (1903-1995) [ud, qanun]

F

- Fādhil al-Saʻdi (196?- ) [dumbuk, daff zinjari]

- Fāʼiq Ḥanna (1939- ) [nay]

- Falāḥ Ismaʻil al-Maslāwi [daff zinjari]

- Fāruq Hilāl (1939- ) [ud]

- Fawzi Sa‘id al-Mawsili [ud]

- Fikri Bashir ʻAziz (1935- ) [violin]

- Fuʼād Misho (1922- ) [ud, violin, clarinet]

- Furāt Ḥusayn Qadduri (1970- ) [qanun]

G

- Gabriel Iskandar (1859-1919) [qanun]

- Ghānim Eliā Ḥaddād (1925- ) [ud, violin]

- Ghānim Yahyā [violin]

- Ghāzi Maḥsub al-ʻAzzāwi [santur]

H

- Hala Bassām [santur]

- Ḥammudi ‘Ali al-Wardi [santur, ud, daff zinjari]

- Ḥammudi ʻAziz Sharba [dumbuk]

- Ḥanna al-‘Awwād [ud, qanun, chanbar]

- Ḥanna Butros (1896-1958) [violin]

- Ḥaqqi ‘Ubadya [ud]

- Hārun Cohen [dumbuk]

- Hārun Rubin Baqchi Zangi (1844-194?) [dumbuk]

- Ḥasan al-Basir al-Shaykhli (1791-1871) [qanun]

- Ḥasan ʻAli al-Naqib (1920-1986) [joza, violin]

- Ḥasan al-Shakarchi [qanun]

- Ḥasan Fāliḥ (1963- ) [qanun]

- Ḥāj Hāshim Muḥammad Rajab al-ʻUbaydi (1921-2003) [santur, joza]

- Hendrin Ḥikmat (1974- ) [santur]

- Ḥeskel Shamma  [daff zinjari]

- Ḥeskel Shmuli ‘Ezrā (1804-1894) [santur]

- Ḥeskel Shuta Miir (1840-1919) [dumbuk, daff zinjari]

- Ḥeskel Sion Yaʻqub (1895-?) [daff zinjari]

- Ḥikmat Dāwud [nay]

- Ḥikmat Sayf al-Din [ud]

- Ḥugi Sāliḥ Raḥmain Patāw (1848-1933) [santur]

- Ḥusam Ya‘qub (1941- ) [flute]

- Ḥusayn ʻAbdallah (1905-1982) [dumbuk, daff zinjari]

- Ḥusayn Barbuti [joza]

- Ḥusayn Ismāʻil Sāliḥ al-ʻUbaydi al-Aʻdhami (1952- ) [joza]

- Ḥusayn Mahdi Sāliḥ Qadduri (1934-2006) [cello]

I

- Ibrāhim ‘Ezrā Moshe Shāshā [dumbuk]

- Ibrāhim Dāwud Cohen [qanun]

- Ibrāhim Muḥammad al-Khalil [daff zinjari]

- Ibrāhim Sāliḥ [daff zinjari]

- Ibrāhim (Abrahām) Salmān (1931- ) [qanun]

- Ibrāhim Shāsha [dumbuk]

- Ibrāhim Taqqu [cello]

- Ibrāhim Ubadya [ud]

- Idris al-Sa‘āti [dumbuk]

- Iḥsan ʻAli Ismāʻil al-Imām [ud]

- Iskandar al-Kamanjāti [violin]

- Ismā‘il Aḥmed (19th century) [qanun]

- Ismā‘il Ḥusayn [violin]

- ‘Izzat Na‘im [violin]

J

- Jabbār Salmān [daff zinjari]

- Ja‘far Ḥasan [ud]

- Ja‘far Ḥasan ‘Abbud al-Khaffaf [ud]

- Jamāl ‘Abd al-Karim [dumbuk]

- Jamil al-Asadi [qanun]

- Jamil Bashir ʻAziz (1921-1977) [ud, violin]

- Jamil Muḥammad ‘Ali [qanun]

- Jamil Salim (1938-1980) [ud]

- Jawdat ʻAbd al-Sattār [qanun]

- Joseph Ḥanna Mansur [violin]

K

- Kādhum Jāsim Muḥammad [joza]

- Kan‘ān Muḥammad Sāliḥ [daff zinjari]

- Karim Darwish [dumbuk]

- Khadhuri Shāʼul Dāwud Bassun (1905- ?) [santur]

- Khadhuri Sāliḥ Bābo (1896-?) [daff zinjari]

- Khālid Gumar (1978- ) [ud]

- Khālid Muḥammad ‘Ali (1958- ) [ud, violin]

- Khalil Ibrāhim (1944- ) [violin]

- Khattāb Bakr al-Shaykhli (1842-1920) [dumbuk]

- Khidhr Bayram Chawush (d. 1920) [dumbuk]

- Khidhr Eliās (1928-1998) [nay]

- Khidhr Ḥabib (ibn Tamāsha) (1832-1910) [qanun]

- Khudhair al-Shibli (192?-200?) [qanun]

L

- Lutfi ibn Rzayj al-Mandilāwi (19th century) [joza]

M

- Maḥmud Ḥusayn [joza]

- Majid Ḥamid [cello]

- Menāshe Nassim [daff zinjari]

- Miir Shuta [dumbuk]

- Moshe Nāḥum Dāwud Shamma [daff zinjari]

- Mulla Mahdi al-Shahrabāni al-Ḥāfidh (1898-1959) [ud]

- Muhallab Hāshim al-Rajab al-ʻUbaydi [dumbuk]

- Muḥammad al-Juburi [daff zinjari]

- Muḥammad ‘Ali al-Imām [ud]

- Muḥammad Ḥasan Najm [ud]

- Muḥammad Ḥusayn Gumar (1959- ) [joza]

- Muḥammad Ḥusayn Mar‘i (1933-1982) [ud]

- Muḥammad Khalil Ibrāhim al-Qaisi (1966- ) [dumbuk, daff zinjari]

- Muḥammad Marzug [nay]

- Muḥammad Sa‘id [ud] 

- Muḥammad Sāliḥ al-Santurchi (18th century) [santur]

- Muḥammad Sāliḥ ʻUmar (195?- ) [joza]

- Muḥammad Sheet [ud]

- Muḥammad Subhi Muḥammad [dumbuk]

- Muḥammad Zaki Darwish al-Sāmarrāʼi (1955- ) [santur]

- Muhannā Hāshim al-Rajab al-ʻUbaydi (1958- ) [violin]

- Munir Bashir ʻAziz (1928-1997) [ud]

- Mustafa ‘Abd al-Qādir Tawfiq [santur]

- Mustafa Muḥammad [ud]

- Mu‘taz Muḥammad Sāliḥ al-Bayyāti (1940- ) [ud]

N

- Nadhum al-Ghazali [ud]

- Nādhum Na‘im Salmo (1925- ) [violin, ud]

- Nāḥum Yonāh ibn Yonāh Darzi (1878-1955) [joza]

- Najāḥ ‘Abd al-Ghafur [qanun]

- Nasim Bassun (1840-1921) [joza]

- Nasim Rajwan [cello, accordion]

- Nasir Shamma (1963- ) [ud]

- Nazih ‘Abdallah [qanun]

- Nazih Muḥsin [daff zinjari]

- Nubār Efendi (1880-1954) [qanun]

- Nuri Hurmiz [nay]

Q

- Qais al-Adhami (1966- ) [daff zinjari]

- Qāsim Muḥammad ʻAbd (1969- ) [santur]

R

- Rāfid Ḥanna Yeldā [nay]

- Raḥim al-Ḥājj (1968- ) [ud]

- Raḥmatallah Safaʼi [santur]

- Raʼid ‘Abd al-Latif [joza]

- Raʼid Khoshābā (197?- ) [ud]

- Rāmi Bāhir Hāshim al-Rajab (1978- ) [piano]

- Rashād ‘Abdallah [ud]

- Rawḥi al-Khammāsh (1923-1998) [ud]

- Rezgār Khoshnāu [ud]

- Riyādh Muḥammad Ḥasan [ud]

S

- Saʻad ʻAbd al-Latif al-ʻUbaydi (195?-198?) [santur]

- Sa‘ad Maḥmud [ud]

- Sabāḥ Hāshim (1961- ) [santur]

- Safwat Muḥammad ʻAli al-Mawsili (1949- ) [ud]

- Sa‘id Firayḥ [nay]

- Saif Walid al-‘Ubaydi (197?- ) [santur]

- Salah Taqqu [cello]

- Sāliḥ Raḥmain Patāw (19th century) [santur]

- Sāliḥ Shummel Sāliḥ Shmuli (1891-1960) [joza]

- Sāliḥ Ezrā Yaʻqub al-Kuwaiti (1905-1986) [violin, ud]

- Sālim ‘Abd al-Karim al-Juburi (1953- ) [ud]

- Sālim Ḥusayn al-Amir (1923- ) [qanun]

- Salim Sālim [ud]

- Salmān Enwiya [santur]

- Salmān Shāʼul Dāwud Bassun (1900-1950) [santur]

- Salmān Shukur Dāwud (1921-2007) [ud]

- Sāmi ʻAbd al-Aḥad Jarjis (194?- ) [dumbuk]

- Sāmi al-Shawwa (1889-1964) [violin]

- Sāmi Nassim (1966- ) [ud]

- Sāsson ‘Abdu [violin]

- Sāsson al-Kamanjāti (d. 194?) [violin]

- Sattār al-Sa‘di (1968- ) [dumbuk]

- Sattār Jadduʻ [daff zinjari]

- Sattār Nāji [ud]

- Sham‘un Ḥeskel Zangi (1847-1924) [daff zinjari]

- Sharif Muḥiddin Ḥaydar Targān (1892-1967) [ud]

- Shaʻubi Ibrāhim Khalil al-Aʻdhami (1925-1991) [joza, violin]

- Shāʼul Dāwud Bassun (19th century) [santur]

- Shāʼul Hārun Zangi (1891-1956) [dumbuk]

- Shāʼul Zangi [qanun]

- Shlumu Shamāsh [qanun]

- Shukr al-Mawsili (d. 1908) [qanun]

- Shummel Sāliḥ Shmuli (1837-1915) [santur]

- Simon Shāhin [ud]

- Sion Ibrāhim Cohen (1895-1964) [qanun]

- Suhayb Hāshim al-Rajab al-ʻUbaydi (194?- ) [joza]

T

- Tāhā Gharib (1964- ) [joza]

- Taisir Eliās [violin]

- Talāl ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Ismā‘il [‘ud]

- Tāriq al-Qaysi [violin]

U

- ‘Umar Munir Bashir (1970- ) [ud]

- Mulla ʻUthmān ʻAbdallah ʻUmar al-Mawsili (1854-1923) [qanun, nay, daff]

W

- Walid Ḥasan [nay]

- Wasim Faris (1970- ) [joza]

- Wisām Ayub al-ʻAzzāwi (1960- ) [santur]

Y

- Yahudā Moshe Shamāsh (1884-1972) [dumbuk, daff zinjari]

- Yaʻqub Murād al-ʻAmāri [nay]

- Yāssin al-Rāwi [ud]

- Yāssin al-Shaykhli (1941-2017) [violin]

- Yunis al-Dāyni [violin]

- Yunis Ramadhān [ud]

- Yusuf Badros Aslān (1844-1929) [violin, santur, qanun, dumbuk]

- Yusuf Cohen [cello]

- Yusuf Ḥammu [daff zinjari]

- Yusuf Ḥugi Pataw (1886-1976) [santur]

- Yusuf Miir Zaʻrur al-Saghir (1901-1969) [qanun]

- Yusuf Yaʻqub Shamtub al-ʻAwwād (1922-2007) [ud]

- Yusuf Zaʻrur al-Kabir [qanun]

Z

- Zaki Ibrāhim Ḥasan (1934- ) [violin]

* This list of maqam al-‘iraqi musicians is a work in progress.  Contact iraqimaqam@gmail.com for more information.