Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Prochazka

T: +43-1-4277-43422

stephan.prochazka@univie.ac.at

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/persons/stephan-prochazka(62474e5a-0f9f-4c8e-9156-14c31bedb162).html

Field: Arab World
Research interests:
- Arabic linguistics
- Arabic dialectology
Current research projects:
- The Arabic dialects of the Shawi type (FWF)
- The language of the Arabic minority in Southern Iran (FWF)
- What is Bedouin-type Arabic? (ERC Advanced Grant)

Publications, activities, further projects, cv: see ucris.univie.ac.at

Summer term 2026

141042 SE+EX Regional or thematic focus: workshop or excursion (optional module) - Linguistic and cultural encounters in the Central Mediterranean: Tunisia, Malta, Sicily.

141078 SE Philology seminar (with BA thesis)

141567 SE Linguistic History of Arabic: Selected Topics

Winter term 2025

141016 VU The Arabic Dialects of Western Asia

141019 VO Linguistic and cultural encounters in the Central Mediterranean: Tunisia, Malta, Sicily.

141024 VU Talismans and magic spells: - The so-called occult sciences in the Arab-Islamic world

141034 VO Principles of Linguistics 1

141151 SE Basics of Arabic Linguistics and Philology

141312 VO Cultural and Economic Geography of the Near East and North Africa

Summer term 2025

090115 EX Study Trip: Ancient Cilicia and Cyprus - From the early Christian cult of the martyrs to iconographic representations

Prochazka-Eisl, G., & Prochazka, S. (2018). The Arabic speaking Alawis of the Çukurova: The transformation of a linguistic into a purely religious minority. In C. Bulut (Ed.), Linguistic Minorities in Turkey and Turkic-speaking Minorities of the Peripheries (pp. 309-328). Harrassowitz Verlag.

Prochazka, S. (2018). The Northern Fertile Crescent. In C. Holes (Ed.), Arabic Historical Dialectology: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches (pp. 257-292). Oxford University Press.

Prochazka, S., & Gabsi, I. (2017). Agreement with plural heads in Tunisian Arabic: The urban North. In V. Ritt-Benmimoun (Ed.), Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects: Common Trends – Recent Developments – Diachronic Aspects (pp. 239–260). Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza.

Prochazka, S., & Prochazka-Eisl, G. (2017). Notes on the cultural and linguistic legacy of the Ottomans in Yemen. In R. G. Stiegner (Ed.), Süd-Arabien / South Arabia: A Great “Lost Corridor” of Mankind. A Collection of Papers dedicated to the re-establishment of South Arabian Studies in Austria. (Vol. 1, pp. 297-312). Ugarit-Verlag.

Mörth, K., & Prochazka, S. (2017). The Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties: Building a Digital Research Environment for Arabic Dialects. In M. F. Al-Hamad, R. Ahmad, & H. I. Alaoui (Eds.), Lisan al-arab: Studies in Contemporary Arabic Dialects. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of AIDA. Qatar University 2013 (pp. 209-218). LIT Verlag.

Prochazka, S. (2016). Betrifft Geschichte: Marokko -Ö1. Radio show

Prochazka, S., & Zach, M. (2016). In memoriam Andrzej Zaborski (1942-2014). Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 46, xiii.

Prochazka, S., Reinfandt, C. L., & Tost, S. (Eds.) (2016). Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Research Network Imperium & Officium. Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom, University of Vienna, 10–12 November 2010. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). Papyrologica Vindobonensia Vol. 8

Prochazka, S., & Batan, I. (2016). The functions of active participles in Šāwi Bedouin dialects. In G. Grigore, & G. Bituna (Eds.), Arabic Varieties: Far and Wide: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of AIDA – Bucharest, 2015 (pp. 457-466). Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti.

Prochazka, S. (2016). The Story of Sālim az-Zīr Abū Laylā al-Muhalhil in Cilician Arabic (Southern Turkey). In Z. Gažáková, & J. Drobný (Eds.), Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honour of Ján Pauliny. (pp. 149–177). Comenius University in Bratislava.

Prochazka, S., & Zach, M. (2015). Nachruf Andrzej Zaborski (1942-2014). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 105, 9-10.

Prochazka, S., & Bsees, U. (2015). Performatives in Arabic Administrative Speech. In Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Research Network Imperium & Officium. (pp. 293-300). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).

Prochazka, S., & Bsees, U. (2015). Performatives in Early Arabic Administrative Letters: A preliminary study. In L. Reinfandt, & S. Tost (Eds.), Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the NFN Imperium and Officium (pp. 347-356). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).

Prochazka, S. (2015). The Alawis. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion Oxford University Press.

Prochazka, S., Telic, A., Müller-Funk, L., & Hatke, G. (2015). Unterwegs in Saudi-Arabien: Historische, gesellschaftliche und kulturwissenschaftliche Hintergründe. Gesammelte Beiträge von der Exkursion des Instituts für Orientalistik in das Königreich Saudi-Arabien im Mai 2014. Selbstverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik.

Prochazka, S. (2014). Die Jesiden – eine verfolgte monotheistische Religion im Nahen Osten. Religionen unterwegs : Zeitschrift der Kontaktstelle für Weltreligionen in Österreich KWR, 20(1), 4-9.

Prochazka, S. (2014). Feminine and Masculine Plural Pronouns in Modern Arabic Dialects. In From Tur Abdin to Hadramawt: Semitic Studies Festschrift in Honour of Bo Isaksson on the occasion of his retirement (pp. 129–148). Harrassowitz Verlag.

Prochazka, S. (2014). Henkin, Roni: Negev Arabic. Dialectal, Sociolinguistic and Stylistic Variation. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2010. XVIII, 406 S. (Semitica Viva 48). Orientalische Literaturzeitung (OLZ), 109(2), 152-153.

Selz, G. J., Prochazka, S., Müller-Funk, L., & Telic, A. (Eds.) (2014). Kulturelle Schnittstelle: Mesopotamien, Anatolien, Kurdistan: Geschichte. Sprachen. Gegenwart. Selbstverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik.

Mörth, K., Prochazka, S., & Dallaji, I. (2014). Laying the Foundations for a Diachronic Dictionary of Tunis Arabic: A First Glance at an Evolving New Language Resource. Paper presented at XVI EURALEX International Congress, Bozen, Italy.

Stephan Prochazka
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Postal address: Spitalgasse 2/4, A-1090 Vienna
Austria

Research interests

Arabic linguistics with a special focus on Arabic dialectology
Popular culture and religion in the Middle East and North Africa
History of Oriental Studies in Austria

Curriculum vitae

Born 20 September 1962 in Dornbirn (Austria)
1969 - 1981: school in Innsbruck
1981 - 1990: Enrolled in the programmes for Linguistics, Arabic and Turkish Studies at Innsbruck, Vienna, Tunis and Istanbul.
November 1990: graduated as “Doctor der Philosophie” (PhD), University of Vienna
1991 – 2000: University assistant at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna
2000: awarded venia docendi (“Habilitation”) for Arabic and Islamic Studies.
2000-2003: guest lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, teaching Arabic at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East as well as Ancient Ethiopic and Koranic Sciences at the Faculty of Catholic Theology.
2003 – 2004: fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem; collaboration in the project “Study of Palestinian Arabic Dialects”.
2004 and 2011: guest lecturer at the University of Cádiz, Spain.
2006: guest lecturer at the University of Uppsala, Sweden
2006: appointed full professor of Arabic Studies, University of Vienna, and working in that capacity ever since.
2004 - 2015: President of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (Paris)
2017: Elected as a corresponding Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
April 2021: ERC Advanced Grant "What is Bedouin-type Arabic?" (2021-2026)

Administrative duties

2016 - 2018: Deputy Director of Studies

2018 - 2022: Director of Studies (SPL 14)

Editorial work

Co-editor of the journal Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.
Member of the editorial Board of the Journal of Arabic Linguistics (Wiesbaden)
Member of the editorial Board of the journal Folia Orientalia (Cracovia)
Member of the editioral Board of the journal Romano - Arabica (Bucharest)
Former member of the editorial Board of the journal Estudios de Dialectología Norteafricana y Andalusí (Zaragoza)