Werner Diem

Werner Diem (born January 25, 1944 in Pähl ) is Professor of Islamic Studies and Semitic Studies .

Life

Werner Diem studied Semitic Philology , Islamic Studies and General Linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1963 to 1968 and received his doctorate in 1968. For one year he was an assistant at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Munich and from 1970 to 1971 he was a lecturer at the Orient Institute German Oriental Society in Beirut . In 1971 he took part in an expedition to Yemen .

From 1971 to 1976 he was an assistant at the seminar for Semitic Studies at the University of Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1972. In 1974 he received a call to the University of California, Los Angeles , which he did not follow. In 1976 he was visiting professor at the University of Cairo and in the same year received the chair for Oriental Philology at the University of Cologne . Since then he has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation. In 1978 he was visiting professor at Ain Shams University in Cairo. In 1988 he organized the XXIV German Orientalist Day in Cologne.

Since 1996 he has been an expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation for Islamic Studies, Semitic Studies and Turkic Studies and since 1998 a representative of the DMG in the committee for the award of the Lidzbarski Medal.

Since April 2005 he has been co-editor of the journal of the German Oriental Society in the field of Arabic and Islamic studies.

Fonts

• The Kitab al gim of Abu 'Amr as-Saibani: A contribution to the arab. Lexicography . Munich 1968
• Sketches of Yemeni dialects . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1973
• High-level language and dialect in Arabic: studies z. today's arab. Bilingualism . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1974, ISBN 3-515-01834-4
• Studies in Arabic and Semitic studies: Anton Spitaler presented by his students on his 70th birthday . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-447-02112-8
• Arabic letters on papyrus and paper from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-447-03119-0
• Corpus papyrorum Raineri Archeducis Austriae . Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85119-252-4
• Edited with Hans-Peter Radenberg : A dictionary of the Arabic material of SD Goitein 's A mediterranean society . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-447-03582-X
• Arabic business letters from the 10th to 14th centuries from the Austrian National Library in Vienna . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03480-7
• Arabic private letters from the 9th to 15th centuries from the Austrian National Library in Vienna . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-447-03481-5
• Arabic official letters from the 10th to 16th centuries from the Austrian National Library in Vienna . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-447-03481-5
• Arabic letters from the 7th to 13th centuries from the Berlin State Museums . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03771-7
• Fa-waylun li-l-qasiyati qulubuhum: Studies on the Arabic adjectival sentence . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-04043-2
• Translocative Verbs in Arabic: A Diachronic Study . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-447-04648-1
• Honorable Dress and Honorable Word: Studies of tasr¯if in Mamluk and Pre-Mamluk Period . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-89913-276-9
• An Arabic deed of sale from Egypt from 1024 AD . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-05050-0
• The Living and the Dead in Islam. Studies in Arabic Epitaphs, Volume I: Epitaphs as Texts . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-05050-0
• Root repetition and desired set . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05267-8
• High-level language and dialect in Arabic . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05339-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Diem in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Werner Diem