Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, Associate Professor Core FacultyFacultyAhmad Al-Jallad is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language. His work focuses on the languages and writing systems of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East. He has authored and edited four books and nearly thirty articles on the early history of Arabic, language classification, North Arabian and Arabic epigraphy, and historical Semitic linguistics. Interviews15 Minute History, Episode 82: What Writing Can Tell Us about the Arabs before Islamhttps://15minutehistory.org/2016/04/27/episode-82-what-writing-can-tell-us-about-the-arabs-before-islam/ 15 Minute History, Episode 107: The Yazid Inscriptionhttps://15minutehistory.org/2018/05/23/episode-107-the-yazid-inscription/ Read more about Al-Jallad’s research in the New Yorkerhttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-new-history-of-arabia-written-in-stone A virtual expedition for Safaitic Inscriptionshttp://aljallad.nl/jonesing-for-arabic/ Areas of Expertise Arabian Epigraphy History of Arabic Language Semitic Linguistics Pre-Islamic Arabic Education Ph.D., Harvard University, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations MA, Harvard University, Semitic Philology
