A collection of essays, originating from papers given at the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies conference held at the University of Manchester in 2009. The collection spans a wide spectrum of Middle Eastern history (both ancient and modern), culture, religion, literature and language.
Philip Sadgrove: Preface
Fahad al-Otaibi: Becoming Roman Staying Nabataean: Identity and Acculturation in the Roman Near East
Solaiman Abdalruhman al-Theeb: A New Nabataean Inscription from the Hudybat al-Madl'ani Site
Adil al-Jadir: Foreign Loanwords in Old Syriac and Hatran Aramaic
Inscriptions
Abeer al-Abbasi: The Prime Factors of the Civil War between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun: 'Soft Power' and 'Second Authority'
Hasan Ahmad: Vainglorious Poetry (Shi'r al-Fakhr wa'l-Hamasa) of the Umayyad Rulers of al-Andalus: A Textual Thematic Examination
Shmuel Moreh: 'Abd
al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Historian and 'Alim
Geoffrey Roper: The Arabic Educational Books Printed in Malta in the 19th Century: Who Read Them and Where?
Otared Haidar: Aleppo: The First Ground for Arab-European Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern Period
Carmen M. K. Gitre: Farah Effendi
Antun and the Staging of a 'New Egypt'
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Dr Philip Sadgrove (MA, PhD) is Head of the School of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester.
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