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Nadia Jamil
Nadia Jamil is College Lecturer in Arabic at St Benet’s Hall and St Peter’s College; and Senior Instructor in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic at the Faculty of Oriental Studie...view moreNadia Jamil is College Lecturer in Arabic at St Benet’s Hall and St Peter’s College; and Senior Instructor in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Her principal research interests are early Arabic poetry and the transformation of ideas from the Jāhiliyya to Islam; poetical figures in the Quran; poetry and religiopolitical authority in the Umayyad era; poetry and image in early Islamic material culture; 'Middle Arabic' grammar and the language of the Norman Sicilian Arabic documents.view less