Vahid Safa

Vahid Safa

Research Fellow

Vahid Safa is a graduate student in Ancient Iranian Languages at the University of Tehran, with over a decade of experience in Islamic studies and a broad interest in Semitic languages. He has taught a range of specialized courses at Inekas, including Akkadian, Biblical Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Sabaic, Comparative Semitic Linguistics, as well as the Historical Grammar of Arabic and Hebrew.

His current research focuses on the linguistic features of Old Hijazi Arabic.

Specialized areas
  • Comparative Semitic Linguistics
  • Historical Grammar of Arabic
  • Linguistic Background of the Qur’an
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Language Contact between Semitic and Iranian Languages