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Ahmad Al-Jallad

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Ahmad Al-Jallad

Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, Professor

al-jallad.1@osu.edu

313 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Rd
Columbus, OH
43210

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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/.

Ahmad Al-Jallad -The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia

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.

 

 

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