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Dr. Orhan Elmaz is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews. His research focuses on Arabic linguistics, Quranic exegesis, and Digital Humanities methodologies, particularly corpus and computational linguistics. Notable contributions include analyzing Quranic hapax legomena, developing a Media Arabic dictionary based on a 200-million-token corpus, and examining adaptations of One Thousand and One Nights. Current projects explore Hadith Arabic and transcultural Muslim women’s rights movements in the 19th-20th centuries.
His teaching spans classical/modern Arab culture, Arabic literature, and language modules such as Media Arabic and Classical Arabic Poetry. Research collaboratives include editing special journal issues on Digital Modern Languages and translating Turkmen poetry. Elmaz supervises three PhD students and has served as an external examiner for doctoral candidates.
Publications reflect interdisciplinary strengths: combining linguistic analysis with cultural studies (e.g., Hadith corpus linguistics) and bridging historical Islamic texts with modern computational methods. His work frequently intersects with transcultural themes, such as women’s rights movements and global literary traditions.
