Posegay, Nick

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, researching interfaith exchange in the intellectual history of Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew. In 2021, I completed a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from Cambridge as a member of Corpus Christi College. Previously, I earned a BA in Near Eastern Languages and Religious Studies and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. I am also a Research Associate at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, where I study Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts, papermaking, and the history of printing.

Areas of Interest

Middle Eastern studies, intellectual history, Semitic languages, Genizah studies, archival history

Historical Periods of Interest

6th through 19th centuries

Positions

2021

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

2021

Research Associate, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, UK

2021

Project Research Assistant, “Thinking Paper” Research and Collection Programme Project, Cambridge University Library, UK

Education

2021

PhD in Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK

2017

MA in Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, USA

Awards and distinctions

2021

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust/Isaac Newton Trust, University of Cambridge, UK

2017

Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Cambridge, UK

2016

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic), United States Department of Education, University of Chicago, USA

Publications

Books

Articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings

Posegay, Nick, and Estara J. Arrant. “Three Fragments of a Judaeo-Arabic Translation of Ecclesiastes with Full Tiberian Vocalisation.” Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 9, no. 3 (2020): 259–96. https://doi.org/10.1163/2212943X-bja10001.

Posegay, Nick. “Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2022, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743822000356.

Posegay, Nick. “Hissing, Gnashing, Piercing, Cracking: Naming Vowels in Medieval Hebrew.” In New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, edited by Aaron D. Hornkohl and Geoffrey Khan, 29–55. Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 7. Cambridge: University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2021. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0250.

Posegay, Nick. “Connecting the Dots: The Shared Phonological Tradition in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew Vocalisation.” In Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions, edited by Aaron D. Hornkohl and Geoffrey Khan, 191–226. Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 3. Cambridge: University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2020. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0207.06.

Connolly, Magdalen M., and Nick Posegay. “A Survey of Personal-Use Qur’an Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah.” Journal of Qur’anic Studies 23, no. 2 (2021): 1–40. https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2021.0465.

Posegay, Nick. “A Judaeo-Arabic Biblical Glossary as a Source for Arabic Historical Dialectology.” Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 20 (2020): 33–52. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.7863.

Connolly, Magdalen M., and Nick Posegay. “An Arabic Qurʾān, That You Might Understand: Qurʾān Fragments in the T-S Arabic Cairo Genizah Collection.” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 11, no. 3 (2020): 292–351. https://doi.org/10.1163/1878464X-01103002.

Posegay, Nick. “The Marking of Poetry: A Rare Vocalization System from an Early Qurʾān Manuscript in Chicago, Paris, and Doha.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80, no. 1 (2021): 73–89. https://doi.org/10.1086/712876.

Posegay, Nick. “Men of Letters in the Syriac Scribal Tradition: Dawid Bar Pawlos, Rabban Rāmišoʿ, and the Family of Beṯ Rabban.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 24, no. 1 (2021): 127–86. https://hugoye.bethmardutho.org/article/hv24n1posegay.

Posegay, Nick. “To Belabour the Points: Encoding Vowel Phonology in Syriac and Hebrew Vocalization.” Journal of Semitic Studies 66, no. 1 (2021): 53–76. https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgaa045.

Areas of Interest

Historical Periods of Interest

Positions

Education

Awards and distinctions

Publications

Books

Articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings

Entries in encyclopaedias and handbooks

Book reviews

Other publications