Mustafa Mughazy

Professor of Arabic

Location:

818 Sprau Tower, Mail Stop 5338

Mailing address:

Department of World Languages and Literatures
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5338 USA

Office hours:

TR 4:00PM – 5:00PM

Education:

Ph.D., Theoretical Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
M.A., Theoretical Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
M.A., Applied Linguistics, Georgia State University, 1999
B.A., Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Alexandria University, 1995

Research Interests:

Interface of semantics and pragmatics
Issues of temporal reference in Arabic

Creative Interests:

Editing Medieval mystical poetry

Bio:

Mughazy was the recipient of the 2019 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award in Research and Creative Activity.

Books

Dīwān Ghurrat al-Zayn: An Anthology of the Poetry of Zayn Al-Abidīn al-Bakrī’s Poetry (Eds. With Adam Sabra), De Gruyter Brill (forthcoming).

al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan, Sabra, Adam and Mughazy, Mustafa. Treatises on Sufism and Ḥadīth: الرسائل البكرية في التصوف والحديث, Vol 1. De Gruyter, 2026.

The Interpreter of Secrets: An Anthology of Muhammed al-Bakrī’s Poetry (Eds. with Adam Sabra). Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale. 2021.

Kitāb Dustūr al-gharāʾib wa-maʿdan al-raghāʾib and Related Texts, Mughazy, Mustafa and Sabra, Adam. V&R unipress, 2020.

The Georgetown Guide to Arabic-English Translation. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 2016.

The Merits of the Bakrī Lords: An Anthology (Eds. with Adam Sabra). Beirut: Dar el-Machreq. 2015.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX (ed.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2007.

Dardasha: Elementary Egyptian Arabic. Madison: National African Language Resource Center. 2004.

Articles

Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics. Guest Editor. 7:2, 2022.

“Mainstreaming Arabic Second Language Acquisition Research.” Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics. 2022:7(2), i-xi. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1234/ajal.v7i2

“A Contribution to the Lexicography of Egyptian Arabic II.” In Revisiting Levels of Contemporary Arabic in Egypt, ed. Zeinab A. Taha. Cairo/New York: American University in Cairo Press, 179-208, 2020. (With Devin J. Stewart)

“A Neo-Aspectualist Analysis of Egyptian and Standard Arabic.” Al-Arabiyya, Journal of the American Association for Teachers of Arabic, 48. 99-140. 2015.

“The Information Structure of Definite Existentials in Egyptian Arabic.” In Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic, ed. Alaa Elgibali and Jonathan Owens. New York: Routledge. 107-120. 2009.

“An Information Structure Analysis of So-called Emphatic Negation.” In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXI, ed. Parkinson Dilworth. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 69-83. 2009.

“Relative Clauses.” In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Vol. 4, eds. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, and Kees Versteegh. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 60-70. 2009.

“The Many Faces of Negation: The Negative Operator as a Discourse Marker in Egyptian Arabic.” In Linguistics in an Age of Globalization: Perspectives on Arabic Language and Teaching, ed. Zeinab Ibrahim and Sanaa Makhlouf. New York: American University in Cairo Press. 156-176. 2008.

“Pragmatics.” In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Vol. 3, eds. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, Manfred Woidich, Kees Versteegh, and Andrzej Zaborski. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 676-683. 2008.

“Nominalization.” In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Vol. 3, eds. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, Manfred Woidich, Kees Versteegh, and Andrzej Zaborski. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 388-394. 2008.

“Performatives.” In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Vol. 3, eds. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, Manfred Woidich, Kees Versteegh, and Andrzej Zaborski. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 570-573. 2008.

“Review of Approaches to Arabic Dialects: A Collection of Articles Presented to Manfred Woidiche on the Occasion of his 60^th Birthday.” eds. Haak, De Jong and Kees Versteegh. Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin 39:276. 2006.

“Reading Despite Ambiguities: The Role of Meta-cognitive Strategies in Reading Authentic Arabic Texts.” Al-Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, 39. 57-74. 2006.

“Ellipsis.” In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2, eds. Mushira Eid, Alaa El-Gibaly, Manfred Woidich, Kees Versteegh, and Andrzej Zaborski. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 18-21. 2006.

“Rethinking Lexical Aspect in Egyptian Arabic.” In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVII, eds. Elabbas Benmamoun and Mohammed. T. Alhawary. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 133-173. 2005.

“Semantic and Pragmatic Constraints on Adjectival Passive Participles in Egyptian Arabic.” In Linguistic Typology and Representation of African Language, ed. John Mugane. New York: Africa World Press. 217-228. 2004.

“Discourse Particles Revisited: The Case of wallaahi in Egyptian Arabic.” In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIII, Eds. Dilworth Parkinson and Samira Farawanrh. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 3-29. 2003.

“Metalinguistic Negation and Truth Functions: The Case of Egyptian Arabic.” Journal of Pragmatics. 35:1143-1160. 2003.

“The Spread of Arabic in Africa” (with Elabbas Benmamoun). In Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History, ed. Paul Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh. New York: Routledge. 38-39. 2003.

“Alexandria in the 20^th Century.” In Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History, ed. Paul Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh. New York: Routledge. 27-28. 2003.

“Adjectival Passives and Thematic Roles in Egyptian Arabic: A Cognitive Semantics Approach.” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences. 32:143-153. 2002.

“Pragmatics of the Evil Eye in Egyptian Arabic.” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 30:147-58. 2000.