ד"ר אריק סדן Arik Sadan Born 1975 E-mail [email protected]

Higher Education 2005-2010 Ph.D. in Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew University of Dissertation: The Naṣb (Subjunctive Mood) in the Verbal System of Classical Arabic according to Medieval Arab Grammarians Advisor: Prof. Aryeh Levin 2003-2004 Exchange Program as part of M.A. studies in Islam, Semitic Languages and German as a Foreign Language Philology, Ruprecht- Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2001-2004 M.A. in Arabic Language and Literature (summa cum laude), Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dissertation: The Word 'Idan as an 'āmil Inducing the Naṣb (Subjunctive Mood) in the Verbal System of Classical Arabic Supervisor: Prof. Aryeh Levin 1998-2001 B.A. in Arabic Language and Literature and Linguistics (magna cum laude), Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Post-Doctorate 2013-present The DFG’s DIP (German Israeli Project Cooperation) Biblia Arabica Post-doctoral Fellowship, Departments of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Bible, Tel Aviv University. Hosted by Prof. Camilla Adang, Prof. Meira Polliack, and Prof. Sabine Schmidtke 2012-2013 The Open University Post-doctoral Fellowship, Departments of Literature, Language and Arts and Computer Sciences, The Open University and The University of Haifa. Hosted by Dr. Nurit Melnik and Prof. Shuly Wintner 2011-2012 The Open University Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of Literature, Language and Arts. Hosted by Dr. Nurit Melnik 2010-2011 Minerva Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship, Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Near East, Friedrich-Schiller- Universität, Jena. Hosted by Prof. Tilman Seidensticker

2009-2010 French Embassy Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of Oriental Studies and Laboratory of the History of Linguistic Theories,

Université 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Université Paris 7. Hosted by Prof. Jean-Patrick Guillaume

Awards and Fellowships 2014-2015 The Academy of the Arabic Language in Research Grant for the Scientific Edition and Research of Mīzān al-ʿarabiyya by Ibn al- Anbārī (d. 577/1181) based on Manuscripts [with Almog Kasher] 2006-2009 The Rotenstreich (Vatat) Fellowship for Ph.D. Students in the Humanities 2003-2004 Exchange Program Scholarship at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg 2001-2002 Faculty of Humanities M.A. Students Scholarship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1999-2000 Dean’s Prize for Excellent B.A. Students in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Career 2016-present Lecturer, the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Shalem College 2011-present Adjunct Teacher at the Department of Middle East Studies, and the Center for International Academic Affairs, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 2005-present Adjunct Teacher at the Rothberg International School for Overseas Students; Department of Summer and Special Programs; Department of Undergraduate Studies; Department of Graduate Studies; and the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2013-2014 Adjunct Teacher at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Tel Aviv University 2013 Adjunct Teacher at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Haifa

Courses Taught 2016-present Shalem College  Intensive Standard Modern Arabic A+B  Sadat’s Speech in the Israeli Knesset (November 1977): Translation, Grammar, and Syntax

2011-present Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva  Modern Standard Arabic (Basic Level)

 Reading Selected Manuscripts of Arab Grammarians  Sadat’s Speech in the Israeli Knesset (November 1977): Translation, Grammar, and Syntax  Arabic Syntax (course taught in Modern Standard Arabic)  Colloquial Arabic (Basic Level)

2005-present Hebrew University of Jerusalem  Modern Standard Arabic (Basic Level)  Modern Standard Arabic (Intermediate Level)  Modern Standard Arabic (Advanced Level)  Colloquial Arabic (Basic Level)  Colloquial Arabic (Intermediate Level)  Arabic Syntax  Reading Selected Texts of Arab Grammarians  Reading Selected Manuscripts of Arab Grammarians

2013-2014 Tel Aviv University  Reading Selected Manuscripts of Arab Grammarians (M.A. Seminar)

2013 University of Haifa  Reading Selected Manuscripts of Arab Grammarians (M.A. Seminar)

Academic Conferences and Presentations 2016 "Grammatical Issues in Yefet b. Eli's Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job, based on the Manuscripts," The International Sixth Conference of the Center of Jewish Languages and Literatures: Jewish Languages, Languages in Contact, Hebrew University of Jerusalem [Hebrew] 2016 "Introduction to Judaeo-Arabic Bible Translations," Center for Islamic and Middle East Studies, University of Oslo [Invited lecture] 2016 "Einführung in die Jüdisch-Arabisch Bibelübersetzungen" (Introduction to Judaeo-Arabic Bible Translations), Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie, Dialektologie und Sprachvariation: Oberseminar (M.A. Programm Linguistik,

Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, [Invited lecture] [German] 2016 "The Distinction Between the Adverbial Accusative of Cause and the Adverbial Accusative of Purpose: Syntactic and Semantic Constraints of the Structure of the Adverbial Accusative of Cause and Purpose (al-mafʿūl lahu), According to Arab Grammarians," Workshop on Modern Semitic Linguistics and Philology Theory and Practice, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo [Invited lecture] 2016 "Yefet b. Eli's Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job," Departmental Seminar, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem [Hebrew] 2015 "Differences and Similarities between Christian and Karaite Translations of the Bible into Arabic: The Case of the Book of Job," The International Conference on The Bible in Arabic: The Evidence of the Manuscripts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven [Invited lecture] 2015 "Yefet b. Eli's Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job: Preliminary Linguistic Observations Based on the Manuscripts in Arabic and Hebrew Letters," The Sixth Conference on Semitic Languages Organized by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, the Chair of Semitic Languages at the University of Heidelberg, and by the Chair of Hebrew Linguistics at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, University of Heidelberg 2014 "Demonstratives in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb and Later Grammatical Treatises," The Foundations of Arab Linguistics 3: The Development of a Tradition: Continuity and Change, The National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Inalco) and la Fondation Singer-Polignac, la Fondation Singer-Polignac Paris 2014 "Yefet b. Eli's Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job: Preliminary Observations," Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Bible Program, and Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Tel Aviv University 2013 "Semantic and Syntactic Influences of Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic on Modern Standard Arabic," AIMA IV: The Fourth International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic: The Role of Middle/Mixed Arabic in the Standardization of Modern Arabic in Its Actual Written/Spoken Use, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 2013 "Syntactic and Semantic Constraints of the Structure of the Adverbial Accusative of Cause and Purpose (al-mafʿūl lahu), Acording to Arab Grammarians," The 32nd German Oriental Studies Conference (“Deutscher Orientalistentag”), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster

2013 "The Use of ḥadīṯs in the Arabic Grammatical Tradition," The 41st North American Conference on Afrioasiatic Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2012 "Challenges in Teaching Arabic at Israeli Universities," Arabic: A Language in the Eye of the Storm, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Dirasat Center, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute [Arabic] 2012 "Sībawayhi’s and Later Grammarians’ Usage of Ḥadīṯs as a Grammatical Tool," The Foundations of Arab Linguistics 2: Kitāb Sībawayhi Transmission & Interpretation, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge 2012 "Grammatical Theories of Ancient Arab Grammarians vs. Linguistic Reality in Kitāb al-ʾAġānī (10th century)," The First International Conference on Written Arabic, Departments of Arabic in Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Roma Tre University 2012 "Internet and Electronic Editions: Important Tools in the Research of the Arabic Language," Conference in Memoriam of Prof. David Semah, Department of Arabic, Haifa University [Invited lecture] [Hebrew] 2012 "The Arabic Language, The Language of Paradise: Its Position in Islam and Early Muslim Society, Classical Arabic and Modern Dialects," Chapters in Islam: Religion, Society and Culture, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem [Invited lecture] [Hebrew] 2010 "The Mood of the Verb Following ḥattā, According to Medieval Arab Grammarians," The Foundations of Arab Linguistics: Sībawayhi and Early Arabic Grammatical Theory, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge 2007 "The Usage of ḥattā, According to Medieval Arab Grammarians," Conference in Honour of Prof. Aryeh Levin on the Occasion of his Retirement, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem [Invited lecture] [Hebrew] 2006 "When was Spoken Arabic First Used?" Israel Translators Association International Conference, The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Jerusalem [Hebrew]

Publications–Refereed Books 1. The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben 'Eli the Karaite on the Book of Job (Karaite Texts and Studies) (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming) 2. A Critical Edition of the Grammatical Treatise Taḏkirat Jawāmiʿ al-ʾAdawāt by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd (Arabische Studien Series), Tilman Seidensticker, and Hartmut Bobzin, eds. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012).

3. The Subjunctive Mood in Arabic Grammatical Thought (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics), Aaron. D. Rubin, and Ahmad Al-Jallad, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2012).

Chapters in Books 1. "Differences and Similarities Between Christian and Karaite Translations of the Bible into Arabic: The Case of the Book of Job," Proceedings of the International Conference on Current Research in the Field of the Arabic Manuscripts of the Bible, Claire Clivaz et al., eds. (forthcoming) 2. "Yefet b. Eli's Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job: Preliminary Linguistic Observations Based on the Manuscripts in Arabic and Hebrew Letters," Proceedings of the the Sixth Conference on Semitic Languages Organized by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, the Chair of Semitic Languages at the University of Heidelberg and by the Chair of Hebrew Linguistics at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien (forthcoming) 3. "Translation of the Second Part of the Introduction of the Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben 'Eli the Karaite on the Book of Job," Anthology of Hebrew Translations of Karaite Texts, Yoram Erder, and Meira Polliack, eds. (forthcoming) [Hebrew] 4. "Demonstratives in Sībawayhi’s Kitāb." The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics 3: The Development of a Tradition: Continuity and Change (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics), Kees Versteegh, and Georgine Ayoub, eds. (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming). 5. "Sībawayhi’s and Later Grammarians’ Usage of Ḥadīṯs as a Grammatical Tool," The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics 2: Kitāb Sībawayhi: Transmission & Interpretation (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 83), Amal E. Marogy, and Kees Versteegh, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 171-183. 6. "Le Subjonctif en Arabe Classique et en Français: des Similarités Intéressantes," Actes du Colloque en Mémoire de Sophie Kessler-Mesguich: Études Juives, Linguistique Hébraïque, Linguistique Sémitique, Jean Baumgarten et al., eds. (Paris: Sorbonne nouvelle, 2012), pp. 293-304. [French] 7. "The Mood of the Verb Following ḥattā, According to Medieval Arab Grammarians," The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics: Sībawayhi and Early Arabic Grammatical Theory (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 65), Amal E. Marogy, ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 173-186.

Articles 1. "Arab Grammarians’ Theories vs. Actual Linguistic Usage: The Naṣb (subjunctive) Mood as Used in al-Iṣfahānī’s Kitāb al-Aġānī," Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 43 (forthcoming in 2016). 2. "The Meaning of the Technical Term Jawāb in Arabic Grammar," Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 37 (2010), pp. 129-137. 3. "The Technical Terms Xiffa and Ṯiqal in the Usage of the Arabic Grammarians," Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 48 (2008), pp. 58-74.

Other Publications Book Review 1. Review of Robert Marzari, Arabic in Chains: Structural Problems and Artificial Barriers, in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 35 (2008), pp. 441-444.

Languages Hebrew – mother tongue Excellent command (reading, writing, speaking) of English and Classical Arabic Very good command (reading, speaking) of German, French, Spanish Very good command of Spoken Arabic Good command (reading) of Latin, Ladino (Judeo-Español), Catalan, Maltese