Michael C. A. Macdonald
FBA is a research associate of the
Khalili Research Centre, honorary fellow of
Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and fellow of the
British Academy
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. He is a Trustee of the
International Association for the Study of Arabia. He is a specialist in the languages, scripts and inscriptions of ancient Syria, Jordan and Arabia. He was also the mentor of the epigraphist and linguist
Ahmad Al-Jallad
Ahmad Al-Jallad is a Jordanian-American philologist, epigraphist, and a historian of language. Some of the areas he has contributed to include Quranic studies and the history of Arabic, including recent work he has done on pre-Islamic Arabian insc ...
.
MacDonald is the leader of the OCIANA (Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of North Arabia). In 2015, the OCIANA project launched the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) project, directed by MacDonald along with Ali Al-Manaser. The goal of this project was to properly document all epigraphic inscriptions from the
Jordanian Harrah. Over the course of six seasons of investigation, over 430,000 photos were taken and deposited into the OCIANA database.
Selected publications
* ''A.F.L. Beeston at the Arabian Seminar, and other papers''. Edited by M.C.A. Macdonald & C.S. Phillips, Oxford: Archaeopress. 2005.
* ''Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia''. (
Variorum Collected Studies Variorum Collected Studies is an academic book series in the humanities published by Ashgate Publishing. The aim of each volume is to bring together, for the first time, a selection of articles by a leading scholar on their particular area of expert ...
, 906.) Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
* ''The development of Arabic as a written language. Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 24 July 2009''. Edited by M.C.A. Macdonald. (Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies volume, 40). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010.
See also
*
Laila Nehme
References
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford
British philologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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