Shabo Talay

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Shabo Talay (* 1968 in Midin / Öğündük , Turkey ) is a German Orientalist and Semitist and is currently a university professor at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Talay came to Germany with his family when he was a child. In 1989 he completed his high school at the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium in Markgröningen and then began his studies of Semitic Studies , Assyriology , Islamic Studies and Near Eastern Archeology at the University of Heidelberg . His most important teachers were Otto Jastrow and Klaus Beyer (Semitic Studies), Raif G. Khoury (Islamic Studies) and Karlheinz Deller (Assyriology). Between 1992 and 1993 he studied Arabic at the University of Aleppo in Syria . During this time he deepened his knowledge of spoken Arabic and began field research on the Arabic dialect of Khātūnīya in northeast Syria. Back in Germany, he continued his studies in Heidelberg, which he completed at the end of 1994 with a master's thesis on the Arabic dialect of Khātūnīya.

He completed his doctoral studies in July 1997 with the dissertation "Grammar of the Arabic Dialect of the Khawētna" in Semitic Studies with Otto Jastrow as a doctoral supervisor at the University of Heidelberg. The dissertation is a descriptive grammar of the dialect of an Arabic tribe that is native to the triangle of eastern Syria, north-west Iraq and south-east Turkey. The basis for this work are sound recordings and written interviews that have been collected on site with the speakers through many years of field research from 1992 onwards.

Equipped with a DAAD postdoc scholarship, Talay traveled to north-east Syria after completing his doctorate for field research to research the Assyrian-Aramaic dialects on the Chabur River. In 1998 he completed his work there and in the following year became a research assistant at the chair for Oriental Philology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and from 2001 research assistant . During his time in Erlangen, he processed the results of his field research at Chabur, which he evaluated in his habilitation thesis “The New Aramaic Dialects of the Assyrians on Khabur in Northeast Syria”, with which he completed his habilitation in 2006 . With his habilitation he received the venia legendi for “Semitic Philology and Islamic Studies / Arabic Studies” and became a private lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2006 he received the habilitation award from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg for his habilitation thesis. The habilitation thesis presents a comparative, both diachronic represents and synchronous description of the languages spoken by the Khabur Assyrians dialects. The Khabur Assyrians are the descendants of the so-called " Nestorians ", during the First World War from their home in the eastern Turkish province of Hakkari distributed and after a long survival march across Iran and Iraq from 1933 onwards were settled by the League of Nations along the Chabur River in Syria. In February 2015 they were again driven out of their villages - this time by the “Islamic State” - and their houses and churches were destroyed. The Chabur Assyrians have lost their homeland again and are on the run.

After completing his assistantship, he was appointed Academic Senior Councilor in 2007. In April 2011, he accepted the professorship for Arabic studies at the University of Bergen in Norway , where he worked until his appointment to the professorship for Semitic Studies at the Free University of Berlin in 2014.

Research priorities

Talay's research focuses primarily on modern Semitic languages , including the Arabic dialects in Syria, Iraq and Turkey, as well as the New Aramaic languages, which are almost exclusively spoken by Christians and Jews . He also deals with the past and present of the Christian minorities in the Middle East . He is currently leading the EU- funded “Aramaic Online” project, which aims to develop an online course for learning the New Aramaic language Surayt / Turoyo . The first results have already been published.

Publications

Monographs

  • The Arabic dialect of the Khawētna. 1. Grammar. Wiesbaden: Semitica Viva 21/1, Harrassowitz, 1999.
  • The Arabic dialect of the Khawētna. 2. Texts and glossary. Wiesbaden: Semitica Viva 21/2, Harrassowitz, 2003.
  • The kidnapping of the Syrian Orthodox priest Melki Tok from Midən in south-eastern Turkey. Introduction, Aramaic Text (Turoyo), Translation and Glossary. Münster: Studies on Oriental Church History, Lit, 2004.
  • The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of the Khabur Assyrians in Northeast Syria: Introduction, Phonology, and Morphology. Wiesbaden: Semitica Viva 40, Harrassowitz, 2008.
  • New Aramaic texts in the dialects of the Khabur Assyrians in northeast Syria. Wiesbaden: Semitica Viva 41, Harrassowitz, 2009.

Editing

  • with Otto Jastrow and Herta Hafenrichter: Studies in Semitic and Arabic Studies: Festschrift for Hartmut Bobzin on his 60th birthday. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008.
  • Suryoye l-suryoye: selected contributions to the Aramaic language, history and culture. Piscataway: Bibliotheca Nisbiniensis I, Gorgias Press, 2008.
  • with Hartmut Bobzin: Arab World: Grammar, Poetry and Dialects; Contributions to a conference in Erlangen in honor of Wolfdietrich Fischer. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2010.
  • with Renaud Kuty and Ulrich Seeger: Not only with angel tongues: Contributions to Semitic dialectology; Festschrift for Werner Arnold on his 60th birthday. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SemArch (accessed November 12, 2016).
  2. ↑ See AS Kaye: The Arabic dialect of Khawētna II: Texts and Glossary . In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 2006, Vol. 65 (3), pp. 219-220 (book review).
  3. ↑ Habilitation award from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg to PD Dr. phil. Shabo Talay: on November 4, 2006 ( memento of October 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Cf. Ronald I., Kim, "The New Aramaic Dialects of the Khabur Assyrians in Northeast Syria: Introduction, Phonology and Morphology". in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2010, Vol. 130 (2), pp. 285-289 (book review).
  5. ↑ Malte Henk, Henning Sußebach: The Exodus from Tel Goran. The time 52/2015, December 23, 2015.
  6. ↑ Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, Free University of Berlin ( Memento from February 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 18, 2016).
  7. ↑ Surayt-Aramaic Online (surayt.com) , Aramaic Online Project, accessed February 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Talay, Shabo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and Semiticist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Öğündük , Turkey