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Ahmad Al-Jallad

Ahmad Al-Jallad

Ahmad Al-Jallad

Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, Associate 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
  • MA, Harvard University, Semitic Philology

Affiliated Faculty member of the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Ahmad 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.