This edited volume is the result of the 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group Maqam in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which brought together scholars from Germany, Turkey, Tunisia, Serbia, Malaysia, Finland, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In order to open up minds and to widen the horizons of discussions on historical traces and present music practices related to the maqam principle in Southern Europe and neighbouring regions, the general topic of the symposium, namely Maqam: Historical Traces and Present Practice in South European Music Traditions, was substructured into three...