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Adnan Saygun, one of the two leading composers of the Turkish Five, was a serious ethnomusicologist who led the fieldwork in gathering folk material, and collaborated with prominent musicological researcher and composer, Béla Bartók. Like Bartók, Saygun used folk elements extens…

This Project/Dissertation was an investigation into the role of the guide on pilgrimage. An incident experienced by the author provoked an examination of the tradition of pilgrimage, which identified a biblical tension between the pilgrimage of freedom in the exodus from Egypt a…

In the Preface to the Guide of the Perplexed (c.1190), Maimonides asks his readers not to write commentaries on the text. In spite of his request, formal commentaries and glosses began to appear in the 13th century and continued to be written until the early 19th century. This m…