Ahmad Al-Jallad
Contact Information
Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Arabian Epigraphy
- History of Arabic Language
- Semitic Linguistics
- Pre-Islamic Arabic
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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.
He is the scientific director and manager of the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia [OCIANA], the world's central resource for Arabia's pre-Islamic epigraphic heritage. You can access the database here: https://ociana.osu.edu/.
His latest book reconstructs the religion and rituals of Arabia’s pre-Islamic tribespeople: “The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions” Brill 2022: https://brill.com/view/title/61413?language=en. For more of Al-Jallad’s work, see https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/AhmadAlJallad.