A maqam of the Sikah family whose tonic is Sikah (E half-flat), and which in practical presentation is built from Jins Awj Iraq together with Jins Sikah inside a distinctive descending route.

Awj Iraq is a maqam of the Sikah family whose tonic is Sikah (E half-flat), and its defining trait is a descending sayr: it begins in the upper register and gradually descends until it settles on the tonic.

Awj Iraq is a maqam of the Sikah family whose tonic is Sikah (E half-flat), and it is distinguished by a descending sayr. In the practical form shown by the reference, the maqam is built from Jins Awj Iraq together with Jins Sikah. For that reason it should not be understood as ordinary Sikah, but as a Sikah branch with a distinctive descending path that begins in the upper register and gradually falls to the tonic.

• Sikah (E half-flat): the final tonic of the maqam
• The upper register where Jins Awj Iraq appears: the area that shapes the beginning and first emphasis of the maqam
• Nawa (G), Jaharkah (F), and Dukah (D): essential passing tones in the descent toward the tonic

• The maqam’s character is not understood through the scale alone, but through the descending path that gives it its special shape
• It begins practically from the upper register, then descends through its essential tones until it settles on Sikah (E half-flat)
• If the sense of descent is absent, the maqam may blur into other Sikah-family branches
• If the Sikah tonic is not clearly affirmed at the end, the family identity weakens and the result becomes closer to a general melodic formula than to a specific maqam

• Launch clearly from the upper jawab region
• Bring out Jins Awj Iraq in the upper register
• Descend through Nawa (G), Jaharkah (F), Sikah (E half-flat), and Dukah (D)
• Return to the Sikah tonic with a firm cadence