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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : People

NAMESalman H. Al-Ani

  • Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Associate Director of Arabic Language Program Development, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • B.A. at the University of Baghdad, 1958, English
  • M.A.T. at Indiana University, 1961, Linguistics
  • Ph.D. at Indiana University, 1963, Linguistics
    (Minor in Near Eastern Languages and English Language)

Research Interests

  • Arabic linguistics with a special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax
  • Teaching Arabic as a second language with the application of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
  • Translation

Contact Information

alani@indiana.edu
Goodbody 204
(812)855-8555

Courses Recently Taught

  • Conversational Arabic
  • Arabic Phonetics and Phonology
  • Arabic Grammar
  • Multimedia Arabic

Publication Highlights

  • Arabic Phonetics: This is a major article over 5000 words. This article was published in Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics .E. J. Brill vol. 3. Academic Publications at Leiden/The Netherlands, 2007.
  • Kitab al-Iman (The Book of Faith) by Ibn Taymiyyah. Translated and edited by Salman H. Al-Ani and Shadia A. Tel. Bloomington, Indiana: Iman Publishing House, 1998/1999, 484 pp, 18 pp, introduction and five indices.
  • “Tafkhim” (Phonetic features of retraction in Arabic). Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998.
  • “Sawtiyya” (modern phonetic description of Arabic), Encyclopedia of Islam. Eds. C.E. Bosworth, E. Van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs and G. Lecomti.Leiden: E.J. Brill, IX: 1995, 95-97.