Michael C. A. Macdonald
Michael C. A. Macdonald FBA[1] is a research associate of the Khalili Research Centre,[2] honorary fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford,[3] and fellow of the British Academy. He is a Trustee of the International Association for the Study of Arabia.[4] 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.[5]
Selected publications
[edit]- 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, 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.
References
[edit]- ^ "British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows | British Academy". Britac.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ "The Khalili Research Centre - Mr Michael Macdonald". Krc.web.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
- ^ "Wolfson College, Oxford". Wolfson.ox.ac.uk. 7 May 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ "Structure | the IASA".
- ^ Muhanna, Elias (23 May 2018). "A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
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