This ensured the organic assimilation of Herat traditions in Bukhara at the beginning of the 16th century after the collapse of the Timurid state. In Bukhara, for various reasons, many bearers of the Timurid culture ended up there, including major musicians. At this time, Maulana Najm al-Din Kaukabi Bukhari (early 1470s – 1532 - 1533) was creating here – a versatile personality: a Persian-Tajik poet, musician, composer, music theorist, connoisseur of the system of twelve maqams, teacher of several major later musicians, scientist-astronomer, follower of the Naqshbandi tariqa and its musical-philosophical views. Kaukabi's life and work coincide with the reign of two dynasties – the late Timurids, in the cultural circle of Alisher Navoi and Husayn Bayqara, and the early Shaybanids, under the patronage of Ubaydullah Khan, who, we believe, was Kaukabi's student in the field of music and musical science.
The second (Bukharian) period is the most fruitful and diverse in terms of the nature of its activities. During this time, Kaukabi completed his main scientific work, "Treatise on Music," and acquired students – his followers. In the history of musical culture of Uzbekistan, in all of Central Asia, the Middle East and the Near East, Kaukabi gained recognition for his contribution to the scientific and practical sphere of music. He contributed to the establishment of a practical direction, which was established in the science of music and musical practice from the 16th century, and also reformed the musical-theoretical system of maqam. In his works, he made the transition from mathematical music theory to practical theory, from rationalist and natural-scientific foundations of musical art to myth-poetic and artistic ones.
Kaukabi created or recreated and revived, at a new historical stage, the Bukharian scientific-practical school of maqam, on the basis of which the Bukharian shashmaqam was subsequently formed. Ideas and thoughts about music, borrowed from various works by Kaukabi, proved popular among professional musicians, in the musical-poetic and intellectual circles of Bukhara in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Their influence is also evident in the treatises on music of the scientific-practical school, which arose in the middle of the 16th century in North India and had close ties to the Bukhara school.
Detailed information can be found in the album book "THE MUSICAL LEGACY OF UZBEKISTAN IN COLLECTIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION" (volume VI), published as part of the project "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
The main sponsor of the project is the oilfield services company Eriell-Group.
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