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This study addresses the high degree of voice use of a Muslim imam who leads prayer during the month of Ramadan when Muslims fast. Acoustics, aerodynamic, and endoscopic descriptions were obtained before and after Ramadan for the adult male participant. In addition, the imam wor…

In his collection of lectures, the Majalis al-Mu'ayyadiyyah , al-Mu'ayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi's (d.ca. 1078 C.E.) typologies of the imam set forth a distinctive concept of the Isma`ili imam, as it subsequently results from al-Mu'ayyad's engagement in the works of his predecesso…

The purpose of this dissertation is to use a Foucauldian lens to examine the nature and scope of the many challenges the British faced in southwest Arabia in the wake of the retreating Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War. The subsequent power vacuum which ensued mea…

This dissertation focuses on the nature of perfects and their relationship with other competing resultative constructions in Macedonian and Bulgarian. I show how we can systematically analyze the Macedonian and Bulgarian resultative constructions and demonstrate which of them ar…