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Dr Orhan Elmaz, Lecturer

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oe2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463654
Office: Buchanan 406B

Full research profile

Research and Teaching

My research area is Arabic linguistics and lexicography, more specifically Early Arabic and Qur’anic Studies, and Digital Humanities. In my published dissertation in Arabic Studies, I analysed the morphology, phonetics, function, semantics and rhetorical use of hapax legomena in the Qur’an. I also compiled an Arabic-English dictionary of the 3,500 most frequent lemmas of contemporary Media Arabic which cover 95% of an Arabic media text based on a corpus of 23.5 million tokens.

Currently, I teach Classical Arabic literature at Honours level, in the following modules: Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 1 and Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 2.

Publications

Studien zu den koranischen Hapaxlegomena unikaler Wurzeln
Elmaz, O. 2011 Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz . 372 p. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient).
Research output : Book/Report › Book

 

Traditions to die for
Elmaz, O. 2013 In: Jihadism: Online Discourses and Representations. Vienna University Press , p. 89-102.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Wenn Pausen Grenzen setzen. Über Q 3:7 und die Qualität einer Rezitationspause
Elmaz, O. 2012 In: Religion übersetzen : Übersetzung und Textrezeption als Transformationsphänomene von Religion. Vienna University Press , p. 203-214.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Jihadi-Salafist Creed: Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi’s imperatives of faith
Elmaz, O. 2011 In: New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism. Online and offline. Göttingen: Vienna University Press , p. 15-36.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

khushub musannada (Q 63:4) and ESA m{s1,s3}nd.
Elmaz, O. 2011 In: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. Archaeopress , Vol. 41 , p. 83-94.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

 

Peter Stein, Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München. Band 1. Die Inschriften der mittel- und spätsabäischen Periode. 1. Teil: Text, 2. Teil: Verzeichnisse und Tafeln. Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel Band 5.
Elmaz, O. 2012 In : JOURNAL OF SEMITIC STUDIES . 57 , 1 , p. 191-193.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review