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Shur may refer to:
- Shur (Bible), location in the Hebrew Bible
- Shur-e Qarah Kand, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Shur-e Tazeh Kand, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Shur, Fars, a village in Iran
- Shur, Qazvin, a village in Iran
- Shur, Iranshahr, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
- Shur, Tehran, a village in Iran
- Shur-e Bala, a village in Iran
- Shur-e Sofla, a village in Iran
- Shur Qazi, a village in Iran
- Itaal Shur (b. 1966), American songwriter
- Michael Shur (born 1942), Soviet-born professor of solid-state electronics and physics in the United States
-
, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
- Taurus (constellation), one of the constellations of the zodiac
Shur is a location mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. When Hagar fled from Sarai ( Abram's wife), the angel of the found her by the fountain in the way to Shur." .
Shur is also mentioned in I Samuel 15:7 "Then Saul slaughtered the Amalekites from Havilah all the way to Shur, east of Egypt." According to , Marah is located in the "wilderness of Shur."
Easton's Bible Dictionary on Shur – An enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt toward Philistia The name was probably given to it from the wall (or shur) which the Egyptians built to defend their frontier on the north-east from the desert tribes. This wall or line of fortifications extended from Pelusium to Heliopolis.
Scholars believe that the 'way of Shur' was located along the Wadi Tumilat -- an arable strip of land to the east of the Nile delta, serving as the ancient transit route between Egypt and Canaan across the Sinai.
“Shur” – is one of the great Dastgahs (a multifrequency vocal-instrumental composition) of seven main modes in Persian music. In comparison with Shur of the beginning of the 20th century, in the modern Shur many parts are not used. Modern Shur consists of parts (shobe) such as Maye, Kur-Shahnaz, Bayati-Kurd, Shikesteyi-fars, Mubarriga, Semayi-shems, Hijnaz, Sarenj and Nishibi-feraz. Some performers of Shur use little parts such as Buselik, Ashiran and Shah Khatai.
Maximally shortened kind of Shur destgah includes 8 main parts: Berdasht, Maye, Shur-Shahnaz, Bayati-Turk, Shikesteyi-fars, Semayi-shems'', Hijaz and Sarenj. These parts play a function of “bearing components” of the whole construction in the modern level and make a mode “skeleton” of the composition.
There is also maqam Shur in Azerbaijani music. Mughams such as Shahnaz, Bayati-Kurd, Nava, Azerbaijani national songs and dance melodies and also Shur are based in this maqam.
Azerbaijani composer Fikret Amirov composed “Shur” mugham on the basis of this Shur. A documentary of the same name, shot in 1967 by AzTV, is dedicated to “Shur” mugham.
Shur is a musical modal system in traditional mugham music.
This is the second mode and consists of 1-0.5-1 tone, which is created in the result of amalgamation of three tetra-chords with reach method of the first tetra-chord. Shur mode is the most used mode in Ashik art. Shur creates joyful lyrical mood at listener. Subgenres of Shur includes: Bardasht, Maye, Salmak, Shur-Shahnaz, Busalik, Bayaty-Turk, Shikasteyi-Fars, Mubarriga, Ashiran, Semai-Shams, Hijaz, Shakh Khatai, Sarenj, Gemengiz, Nishibi-Feraz, space for Shur. Mugams relating to the Shur are: Shahnaz, Sarenj, Arazbary, Osmani, Rahab, Neva.