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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.
Preface ; Becoming Roman Staying Nabataean: Identity and Acculturation in the Roman Near East ; A New Nabataean Inscription from the Hudybat al-Madl'ani Site ; Foreign Loanwords in Old Syriac and Hatran Aramaic Inscriptions ; The Prime Factors of the Civil War between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun: 'Soft Power' and 'Second Authority' ; Vainglorious Poetry (Shi'r al-Fakhr wa'l-Hamasa) of the Umayyad Rulers of al-Andalus: A Textual Thematic Examination ; 'Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Historian and 'Alim ; The Arabic Educational Books Printed in Malta in the 19th Century: Who Read Them and Where? ; Aleppo: The First Ground for Arab-European Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern Period ; Farah Effendi Antun and the Staging of a 'New Egypt'