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12/03/2019 - 12/03/2019 | Berlin

Corpus-Coranicum-Lecture 2019 | Before the Qur'an | 03 December 2019, 6 p.m.

This talk will survey the different orthographic traditions used to render the Arabic language before the emergence of a single written standard in early Islamic times. By combining evidence from these sources, we can form a detailed picture of Arabic's phonology, morphology, and dialect geography in pre-Islamic times. Following this, we will attempt to understand the relationship, both diachronically and geographically, of the dialect represented in Qur'anic orthography with these sources.

Ahmad Al-Jallad specializes in the early history of Arabic and North Arabian. He has done research on Arabic from the pre-Islamic period based on documentary sources, the Graeco-Arabica (Arabic in Greek transcription from the pre-Islamic period), language classification, North Arabian and Arabic epigraphy, and historical Semitic linguistics. His notable decipherments include a zodiac star calendar used in the Safaitic inscriptions (Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 2014), the oldest Arabic poem yet discovered (Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religion, 2015), and the decipherment of the oldest, fully vocalized Arabic text, written in Greek letters (Arabian Epigraphic Notes, 2015). He is the founding director of the Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia, and has led or been a member of several epigraphic and archaeological projects.

Corpus-Coranicum-Lecture 2019 | Before the Qur'an: Arabic's History Across Greek, South Semitic, and Aramaic Writing Traditions | 03 December 2019, 6 p.m.

Event of the long-term project "Corpus Coranicum", member of the Research Centre for Primary Sources of the Ancient World at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Lecture in the series "Languages and Cultures in the Near East and the Silk Road in Late Antiquity" (organized by Turfan and Corpus Coranicum).

Welcoming Address
Tonio Sebastian Richter
Member of the Academy

Introduction
Angelika Neuwirth
FU Berlin

Introduction
Michael Marx
Corpus Coranicum, BBAW

Lecture
Ahmad Al-Jallad
The Ohio State University

Further Information
Franziska Urban
furban@bbaw.de
+49 (0) 30 / 20 370 529

www.bbaw.de/en/

Information on participating / attending:
Admission is free. Registration is requested.
Please register until 01.12. at: www.bbaw.de/anmeldung-cc19

Date:

12/03/2019 18:00 - 12/03/2019 21:00

Registration deadline:

12/01/2019

Event venue:

Academy Building – Gendarmenmarkt
Einstein Hall, Jägerstraße 22/23
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany

Target group:

all interested persons

Email address:

Relevance:

transregional, national

Subject areas:

Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Language / literature

Types of events:

Presentation / colloquium / lecture

Entry:

11/26/2019

Sender/author:

Dr. Ann-Christin Bolay

Department:

Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event65405

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