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Study By Ahmad Al-Jallad Featured In Live Science Article

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)

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.

Read the article here.