July 16, 2024
Study By Ahmad Al-Jallad Featured In Live Science Article
![The boulder with the two Paleo-Arabic inscriptions. (Image credit: Taif-Mecca Epigraphic Survey Project, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, directed by Ahmad Al-Jallad and Hythem Sidky)](/sites/default/files/styles/news_and_events_image/public/2024-07/BB1pPF0P.jpg?h=3e16b80a&itok=2cSDRnk1)
Professor Ahmad Al-Jallad, Chair in Arabic Studies, was featured in a Live Science article as he was the co-author of the study of a "Paleo-Arabic inscription on a boulder near an abandoned mosque in Saudi Arabia," which "may have been carved by Ḥanẓalah bin Abī ʿĀmir, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad."
Ahmad Al-Jallad is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language. His work focuses on the languages, writing systems, history, and cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East.