feedback

Yulia Petrova

Senior Fellow, Ph.D. Philology

ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-5130-232X

 

      Main research interests:

  • Textual criticism and study of primary sources;
  • Arab Christian manuscripts and literature;
  • Arabic sociolinguistics and dialectology.

 

      Research topics:

  • Textual criticism and language of the Arab Christian manuscripts;
  • Study, edition and annotated translation of Arab Christian manuscripts;
  • Edition and translation of the 17th century historical source “The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch”.

     

    PhD thesis:

  • Phonological and Morphological Systems of Egyptian Arabic. A. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2007. Supervisor: Professor Valeriy Rybalkin.

     

    List of main publications:

    BOOKS:

  • “The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch”. The Kyiv Manuscript of Paul of Aleppo’s Journal / Arabic edition, annotated Russian translation, introduction. Kyiv, 2015. 268 p.

  • Egyptian Arabic: Structure and Functioning. Kyiv, 2011. 285 p. (in Ukrainian).

     

    EDITED BOOKS:

  • Paul of Aleppo’s Journal. Vol. 1. Syria, Constantinople, Moldavia, Wallachia and the Cossaks’ Lands / Introductory Study, Arabic Edition and English Translation by Ioana Feodorov with Yulia Petrova, Mihai Țipău and Samuel Noble. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2024. 897 p.

  • Paul din Alep. Jurnal de călătorie. Siria, Constantinopol, Moldova, Valahia şi Ţara cazacilor/ Traducere din limba arabă, studiu introductiv şi note de Ioana Feodorov, cu colaborarea Yuliei Petrova şi a lui Mihai Ţipău. Brăila: Editura Istros a Muzeului Brăilei “Carol I”, 2020. 624 p.

  • Dobirne namysto na šanu arabista. Festschrift for Lidya Petrova / ed. by Yulia Petrova and Valeriy Rybalkin. Kyiv: Kyiv National Linguistic University, 2017. 380 p.

  • Dimitrie Cantemir. Salvation of the Sage and Ruin of the Sinful World / ed. by Ioana Feodorov, with the contribution of Yulia Petrova on the Arabic edition and English translation. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2016. 496 p.

  • Europe in Arabic Sources: “The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch”. Proceedings of the International Conference “In the Eyes of the Orient: Europe in Arabic Sources” (Kiev, 22-23 September 2015). Ed. by Y. Petrova and I. Feodorov. Kyiv: A. Krymsky Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2016. 244 p.

  • POLYPHONIA ORIENTIS: Language, Literature, History, Religion (a Collection of Articles Presented to Prof. Valeriy Rybalkin on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday). Kyiv, 2013. 388 p.

     

    MAJOR PAPERS:

  • Panegyric Prefaces in Honor of Benefactors in Old Arabic Christian Prints of the Early 18th Century, in: Shidnyj Svit, Kyiv, 2024, No. 3, pp. 79-94 (in Ukrainian).

  • The Prefaces of the Christian Arabic Books Printed in Wallachia and Syria in the Early 18th Century, in: Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond / ed. by Radu Dipratu and Samuel Noble, Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 265-288. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111060392-012 

  • Towards the History of Arabic Printing in the Orient: the First Arabic Christian Books Printed in Wallachia, in: Shidnyj Svit, Kyiv, 2023, No. 1, pp. 24–43 (in Ukrainian).

  • The Collection of Arabic Manuscripts at the “V. I. Vernadsky” National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv, in: Arabic Christianity between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe / ed. by I. Feodorov, B. Heyberger, S. Noble, Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2021, pp. 227–249.

  • Tawfiq Kezma and Mikha’il Nu‘ayme: Acquaintance and Cooperation (on the Basis of Archival Documents), in: Shidnyj Svit, Kyiv, 2021, No. 2, pp. 84–102.

  • Development of the Orthodox Christian Vocabulary in Arabic, in: Romano–Arabica, Bucharest, 2020, vol. XX, pp. 259–269.

  • Christian Liturgical Terminology in Arabic: Development and Functioning, in:  Shidnyj Svit, Kyiv, 2019, No. 3, pp. 54–67 (in Ukrainian).

  • The Kiev Manuscript of “Beirut Church Chronicle”: General Survey, in:  St. Tikhon’s University Review. Philology, III: 61, Moscow, 2019, pp. 123–131 (in Russian).

  • “Pilgrimage to Sinai, the Mountain of Lord” as an Example of Melkite Itinerary, in: St. Tikhon’s University Review. Philology, III: 57, Moscow, 2018, pp. 89–101 (in Russian).

  • Arab Christian Liturgical Manuscripts in the Collection of the Manuscript Institute of the V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, in: Shidnyj Svit, Kyiv, 2018, No. 2, pp. 63–83 (in Russian).

  • “The Travels of Macarius”: the Kiev Manuscript of Paul of Aleppo’s Journal, in: Rossija i Palestina: naučnyje i kul’turnyje svjazi / Ed. by G. Pumpjan. St. Petersburg, 2018, pp. 266–283 (in Russian).

  • Some Peculiarities of Paul of Aleppo’s Writing Style as Found in His Travel Account, in: Romano-Arabica, Bucharest, 2018, No. 18, pp. 113–123.

  • Lexis of Slavonic Origin in Paul of Aleppo’s Journal, in: St. Tikhon’s University Review. Philology, III: 53, Moscow, 2017, pp. 78–93 (in Russian).

  •  “The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch” as the Most Prominent Sample of Arab Christian Literature in Middle Arabic, in: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the History of Arabic Literature (Kiev, June 4–5, 2015) / Ed. O. Khomitska, B. Horvat. Kyiv: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Philology, 2016, pp. 138–149 (in Arabic).

  •  “The Travels of Macarius”: Relationship between the Manuscript Versions, in: Europe in Arabic Sources: “The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch”. Proceedings of the International Conference “In the Eyes of the Orient: Europe in Arabic Sources” (Kyiv, 22-23 September 2015) / ed. by Y. Petrova and I. Feodorov, Kyiv, 2016, pp. 11–32.

  • A Case of Colloquialization of the Text: the Kiev Manuscript of “The Travels of Macarius”, in: Arabic Varieties: Far and Wide. Proceedings of the 11th International conference of AIDA (Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe) / Ed. by G. Grigore and G. Biţună, Bucharest: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2016, pp. 445–452.

  • Romanian Vocabulary in the Journal of a Syrian Traveller of the 17th Century, in: Proceedings of the International Conference “Ukraine and the World: Dialogue of Languages and Cultures”, Kyiv, 2016, pp. 290–292 (in Ukrainian).

  • Linguistic Features of Arab Christian Literature of the Ottoman Period, in: Shidnyj Svit, Kyiv, 2015, No. 3, pp. 49–60 (in Ukrainian).

  • From the Poetic Heritage of Patriarch of the Coptic Church Shenouda III / foreword, Russian annotated translation, in: St. Tikhon’s University Review, Philology, III: 5(45), Moscow, 2015, pp. 135–141.

  •  “The Travels of Macarius”: Return of the Forgotten Manuscript of A. Krymskiy, in: Revue des Études Sud-Est Européennes. Tome LII, 1–4, Bucharest, 2014, pp. 357–376.

  •  “The Travels of Macarius Patriarch of Antioch”. Translation by Tawfiq Kezma. Edition, commentaries and foreword, in: Shidnyj Svit, Kyiv, 2014, No. 1, pp. 161–188 (in Russian).

  • The Compound Tense Forms in Egyptian Arabic, in: Romano–Arabica: ‘Āmmiyya and Fuṣḥā in Linguistics and Literature, Bucharest, 2014, No. 14, pp. 263–276.

  • Formation of Regional Norm in the Koine of Amman, in: POLYPHONIA ORIENTIS: Language, Literature, History, Religion (a Collection of Articles presented to Prof. Valeriy Rybalkin on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday), Kyiv, 2013, pp. 163–178 (in Ukrainian).

  • The Koine of Cairo as a Language of Popular Science Texts, in: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference in honor of A. Krymsky, Kyiv, 2012, pp. 116–118 (in Ukrainian).

  • Sources of the Formation of the Egyptian Arabic Vocabulary, in: Mova i Kultura, Kyiv, 2011, pp. 162–169 (in Ukrainian).

  • Egyptian Arabic in Christian Sacred Texts, in: Shidnyi Svit, 2008, No. 4, pp. 115–121 (in Russian).

  • Classification of the Local Varieties of Egyptian Arabic, in: Shodoznavstvo, Kyiv, 2008, No. 41-42, pp. 118–129 (in Ukrainian).

  • Towards the History of the Language Situation in Egypt, in: Shodoznavstvo, Kyiv, 2007, No. 39-40, pp. 102–115 (in Ukrainian).

  • The Vowel System of Egyptian Arabic, in: Shidnyi Svit, Kyiv, 2006, No. 4, pp. 87–96 (in Ukrainian).

    The System of Augmented Verbal Patterns in Egyptian Arabic, in: Shidnyi Svit, Kyiv, 2006, No. 3, pp. 121–130 (in Ukrainian).

     

    ANNOTATED TRANSLATIONS:

  • “Beirut Church Chronicle”: Record of the 19th Century Events, in: St. Tikhon’s University Review. Philology, III: 65, Moscow, 2020, pp. 121–137 (In Russian).

  • Pilgrimage to Sinai, the Mountain of Lord in 1635–1636, in: Anthology of the Literature of the Orthodox Arabs. Vol. 1: History / Ed. by K. A. Panchenko, Moscow: St. Tikhon’s University Press, 2020, pp. 235–256 (in Russian).

  • Paul of Aleppo. The Travels of Macarius (fragment), in: Anthology of the Literature of the Orthodox Arabs. Vol. 1: History / Ed. by K. A. Panchenko, Moscow: St. Tikhon’s University Press, 2020, pp. 289–315 (in Russian).

  • Mikha’il Breyk. History of Damascus (fragment), in: Anthology of the Literature of the Orthodox Arabs. Vol. 1: History / Ed. by K. A. Panchenko, Moscow: St. Tikhon’s University Press, 2020, pp. 348–369 (in Russian).

  • Mikha’il Nu‘ayme. A Bee in the City, in: Čaša i vinočerpij. Collection of Translations in Memory of A. A. Dolinina / Ed. by S. Gintsburg, V. Dzevanovsky, St. Petersburg: Peterburgskoje vostokovedenije, 2018, pp. 178–180 (in Russian).

     

    BOOK REVIEWS:

  • Tipar pentru creştinii arabi: Antim Ivireanul, Atanasie Dabbās şi Silvestru al Antiohiei / Ioana Feodorov; cuvânt înainte de ÎPS Casian, Arhiepiscopul Dunării de Jos; pref. de dr. Doru Bădără. Brăila: Editura Istros a Muzeului Brăilei, 2016. 399 p., in: St. Tikhon’s University Review. Philology, Moscow, 2017, No. ІІІ: 53.

  • Works on the History and Philology of the Christian Orient (by I. Krachkovsky, in Russian) / ed. by A. Dolinina. Moscow, 2015. 901 p., in: St. Tikhon’s University Review. Philology, Moscow, 2016, No. ІІІ: 4(49).

  • The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700–1700: an Anthology of Sources / ed. by S. Noble and A. Treiger, foreword by Metropolitan Ephrem (Kyriakos). Northern Illinois University Press, 2014, in: Shidnyj Svit, Kyiv, 2014, No. 4.