Soqotra, Mahra, and Dhofar: Studies in Modern South Arabian Languages and Oral Literatures. a Volume in Honor of Vitaly Naumkin

For the first time in the history of Semitic studies, this volume is devoted entirely to Modern South Arabian (MSA) as a unified linguistic and cultural entity. The three principal regions inhabited by MSA speakers--Mahra and Dhofar on the Arabian mainland, and the island of Soqotra--are comprehensively represented. The contributions span a broad thematic range, including cultural history, field sociology, and, above all, linguistics (both synchronic and diachronic), alongside the rich oral traditions of MSA-speaking communities.

Maria Bulakh, Ph.D. (2005), RSUH, is an assistant professor of Ethiopian and Semitic studies at HSE University. She has published extensively on Ethiopian and MSA linguistics, notably, The T-Stems in Soqotri. A Contribution to Semitic Detransitivising Derivation (Brill, 2024). She is a field researcher on Soqotra since 2017.

Leonid Kogan, Ph.D. (2001), RSUH, Habil. (2020), HSE University, is head of the Near Eastern department at this university. His books and articles deal with a wide scope of linguistic and philological topics in the Semitic domain, including early Akkadian, Ethiopian, and MSA. Co-editor of the Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature (Brill, 2014 and 2018). He is a field researcher on Soqotra since 2010.