Naila Razzaq, PHD (candidate)

Naila Razzaq is a PhD student at Yale University specializing in early Mediterranean religions, late Antique history and comparative Semitic philology. She primarily works on early Jewish texts from the Hellenistic period including the Dead Sea Scrolls, inscriptions, writings and material culture from diaspora communities in Alexandria, Babylonia and Arabia. She is deeply interested in the history and development of Semitic languages and scripts, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Ethiopic and Arabic, and what the development of these languages can tell us about interactions between various communities and the transmission of various types of knowledge in the ancient Middle East. In addition to academia, she is Deputy Associate editor for the archaeology and ancient history section of the Review of Religions magazine. She has served on the National Tabligh team and is serving currently as local lajna muavina Sadr.