Dr Orhan Elmaz

Dr Orhan Elmaz

Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3637
Email
oe2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 102
Location
Buchanan
Office hours
Wednesday 1-2, Thursday 1-2

 

Teaching

I have been teaching classical and modern Arab culture, classical Arabic literature and Arabic language, at sub-honours and honours level, in the following modules: Introduction to Classical Arab Culture, Modern Arab Culture & Society (in Arabic), second-year Arabic, Media Arabic 1 and 2, Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 1 and 2, Classical Arabic Poetry, and Classical Arabic Prose.

Research areas

My research area is Arabic linguistics, more specifically the emergence and development of Arabic and the philological and rhetorical exegesis of the Qur’an (and its use and abuse), as well as Digital Humanities, especially corpus and computational linguistics. In my published dissertation in Arabic Studies, I analysed the use of hapax legomena in the Qur’an. I have also compiled an Arabic-English dictionary of the 3,500 most frequent lemmas and multi-word items of contemporary Media Arabic which cover 95% of an Arabic media text based on a corpus of 200 million tokens. Recently, I have finished a volume on adaptations of One Thousand and One Nights including my contribution on the linguistics of the first printed edition of the Nights in Arabic and its editor’s adaptation of the manuscript(s) that it was based on. My current research is dedicated to a corpus linguistic exploration of Hadith Arabic, and transcultural Muslim women’s rights movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

PhD supervision

  • Faleh Alazemi
  • Rawan Almuwayshir

Selected publications

  • Elmaz, O., 22 Oct 2024, Arabian folk and fairy tales: fables, folklore and ancient stories. Jackson, J. K. (ed.). London: Flame Tree, (Flame Tree collector's editions).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Open access
    Elmaz, O., Huc-Hepher, S., Spence, P. & Wells, N., 18 Dec 2023, In: Modern Languages Open. 38.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Elmaz, O. (Editor), Huc-Hepher, S. (Editor), Spence, P. (Editor) & Wells, N. (Editor), 18 Dec 2023, In: Modern Languages Open. 2023, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

  • Elmaz, O. & Saed, Z., 1 Sept 2022, Gulf Coast: a Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, 34, 2.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Open access
    Elmaz, O., 3 Aug 2021, In: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. 21, p. 39-56

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Elmaz, O., 16 Mar 2021, In: Reading Religion.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Elmaz, O. (Editor), 1 Jun 2020, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. 350 p. (Gorgias Handbooks; vol. 47)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Elmaz, O., 22 Jun 2020, Endless inspiration: one thousand and one nights in comparative perspective. Elmaz, O. (ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, p. 169-212 44 p. (Gorgias handbooks; vol. 47).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Open access
    Elmaz, O., Jul 2020, In: Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies. 38, 1, p. 159-175 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Elmaz, O., Nov 2017, To the Madbar and Back Again: Studies in the Languages, Archaeology, and Cultures of Arabia Dedicated to Michael C.A. Macdonald. Al-Jallad, A. & Nehmé , L. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 522-550 28 p. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; vol. 92).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review