Arabic & Persian Studies Teaching Staff

Dr Amal Marogy
Dr Amal Marogy
Current Position

Lector in Arabic

Contact Information

Email: aem69@cam.ac.uk

Details

Dr Marogy is a bilingual Aramaic-Arabic speaker from Iraq. She gained a BA from the University of al-Mustansiriyya in Baghdad, a degree in Applied Linguistics from Mercator Hogeschool Ghent and a PhD in Oriental Languages and Cultures from the University of Ghent. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the Kitāb Sībawayhi and more specifically with Inversion, Definiteness and Case Assignment in Verbless Nominal Sentences in the Kitāb. She has extensive experience in teaching Arabic at university level and outside. She hopes that her rich background will help her become an active contributor to the intercultural dialogue between the East and the West.

Interests

Arab Grammatical Tradition, pre-Islamic and early Islamic period (6th-9th century), intercultural dialogue between Christianity and Islam past and present, Syriac, Neo-Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew.

Conferences organised

Foundations of Arabic Linguistics Conference (FAL1). University of Cambridge. 3rd and 4th September 2010

Foundations of Arabic Linguistics Conference (FAL2). University of Cambridge. 13th and 14th September 2012

Publications

Books

  • The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics: Sībawayhi and Early Arabic Grammatical Theory. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 65. Edited by A E. Marogy with a foreword by M.G. Carter. Brill: Leiden and Boston. May 2012.

  • Kitāb Sībawayhi. Syntax and Pragmatics. (2010). Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, vol. 56. Brill: Leiden and Boston.

  • La Mafarr. Handbook of Arabic Grammar (2007). Van Mol, M. & Amal Marogy. Peeters: Leuven. (in Dutch)

  • La Mafarr. Excercises and Key. (2007). Amal Marogy & Van Mol, M. Peeters: Leuven. (in Dutch)

  • Arabic translation of Brussels, History of a Brabant City. (2001). Rosseels Printing Company nv. Leuven.

Articles

  • "Zayd, ʿAmr and ʿAbdullāh: Theory of Proper Names and Reference in Early Arabic Grammatical Tradition." in The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics: Sībawayhi and Early Arabic Grammatical Theory. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 65. Edited by A E. Marogy with a foreword by M.G. Carter. Brill: Leiden and Boston. 2012.

  • "Kitāb Sībawayhi and Modern Linguistics. A Synoptic View of a Complementary Relationship". Synergies Monde arabe, n° 7 - 2010 pp. 29-34.

  • "Inversion, definiteness, and Case Assignment in Arabic Nominal Structure: the Classical Theory". Al-‘Arabiyya, (2004: 37), pp. 77-99

Book reviews

  • The Legacy of the Kitāb: Sībawayhi's Analytical Methods within the Context of the Arabic Grammatical Theory, by R. Baalbaki. Journal of Islamic Studies. Oxford University Press. January 2011: 22 (2). [ Link ]