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

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

Winter term 2024

141016 VU Arabic Dialects of West Asia

141151 SE Basics of Arabic Linguistics and Philology

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

Ambros, A., & Prochazka, S. (2006). The Nouns of Koranic Arabic Arranged by Topics: A Companion Volume to the 'Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic'. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag.

Prochazka, S. (2006). Vorwort. In A. Ibric (Ed.), Islamisches Bilderverbot : vom Mittel- bis ins Digitalzeitalter LIT Verlag.

Prochazka, S. (2005). Arabisch intensiv: Grundkurs. Herausgegeben vom Landesspracheninstitut Nordrhein-Westfalen. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 95, 452-454.

Prochazka, S., & Prochazka-Eisl, G. (2005). Muslim Sanctuaries in and around Jerusalem Revisited. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, (95), 163-194.

Prochazka, S. (2005). O. Jastrow: Arabische Texte aus Kinderib. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 95, 464-465.

Prochazka, S. (2005). The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon. In É. Á. Csató (Ed.), Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic (pp. 191-202). RoutledgeCurzon.

Prochazka, S. (2004). Altäthiopische Studiengrammatik. Academic Press Fribourg. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Subsidia linguistica Vol. 2

Ambros, A., & Prochazka, S. (2004). Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag.

Prochazka, S. (2004). J. Owens (Ed.): Arabic as a Minority Language. Mediterranean Language Review, 15, 194-199.

Prochazka, S. (2004). Lämmer, Geckos, junge Hähne: Tiernamen der Schemata fa???l und fa?l?l in den syro-palästinensischen Dialekten. Estudios de Dialectología Norteafricana y Andalusí (EDNA), (8), 149-162.

Prochazka, S. (2004). M. Wittrich: Der arabische Dialekt von Āzəx. Mediterranean Language Review, 15, 205-207.

Prochazka, S. (2004). Sprenger, Aloys Ignatz Christoph. Web publication, Oxford University Press.

Prochazka, S. (2004). Unmarked Feminine Nouns in Modern Arabic Dialects. In M. Haak (Ed.), Approaches to Arabic Dialects. A Collection of Articles presented to Manfred Woidich on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (pp. 237-262). Brill.

Prochazka, S. (2003). Äthiopisches Evangeliar. In Im Anfang war das Wort: Glanz und Pracht illuminierter Bibeln (pp. 378-383). Taschen.

Prochazka, S. (2003). K. E. Brustad: The Syntax of Spoken Arabic. A comprehensive study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti dialects. Al-Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of the Teachers of Arabic, 36, 185-189.

Prochazka, S. (2003). The Bedouin Arabic Dialects of Urfa. In I. Ferrando (Ed.), AIDA: 5th Conference Proceedings: Cádiz, September 2002 (pp. 75-88). Servicio de Publ., Univ. de Cádiz.

Prochazka, S. (2002). Die arabischen Dialekte der Çukurova (Südtürkei). Harrassowitz Verlag. Semitica Viva Vol. 27

Prochazka, S. (2001). Sh. Talay: Der arabische Dialekt der Khawētna. I: Grammatik. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 40, 90-92.

Prochazka, S. (2001). S.-O. Dahlgren: Word Order in Arabic. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 91, 461-463.

Prochazka, S. (2000). Book Review: P. M. Kurpershoek: Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Vol. II: The Story of a Desert Knight. Arabic and Middle Eastern Literature, 3(1), 109-112.

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)