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During the Abbasi era in Baqdad, music was considered as one of the parts of people's life and paid attention as a means of entertainment by different social classes. The special classes, that have higher social position, played an effective role in developing music by applying the musicians in their houses and supporting them. In such classes, applying the singer and player bound women showed their power and the importance of their social position. As a result, some governments were known as musicians themselves. Also, Music was well known between the public. Various communities of society like the tailors and cup-therapists were familiar with music. However, according to religion and some narratives dealing with music is forbidden, so the social approach toward this art was not much appreciated in Baghdad. The presented research is studying about the status of the art of music between different social classes in Baghdad. The research method is descriptive-analytic and is organized based on the sources and references of the existing researches.

Timurid era was a flourishing period of several arts which is in absolute contradiction to the political-military conditions of that period. After the conquest of Iran, Timor decided to gather artists in Samarkand to help him demonstrating his power and superiority and his successors also adopted such a policy which resulted in creation of a thought school in the name of Herāt in Iranian culture. Music is one of the arts experienced great prosperity in that period in a way that musicians stood on a higher situation in comparison with previous periods, the matter which is clearly reflected in reports of primary sources and survived paintings of that period. Using descriptive-analytical method, the present research is to investigate the music and musician status based on historical texts and related figures, especially considering the figures of this era in three governing periods of Timur, Shāhrokh and Hossein Bāyqārā. The evaluation of political motivations and stimulants of Timurid official figures who were interested in music would be naturally accomplished as one part of the study.