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Makam music is a traditional musical system that for centuries was used in Ottoman medicine and the Islamic world to treat spiritual and physical ailments. This practice is based on the belief that music can influence an individual’s psychophysiological balance. Makams have been regarded as possessing the potential to affect a person’s emotional state through specific tone sequences and the emotional characteristics inherent in those sequences. It was believed that different makams exerted disti