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The Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is one of the university's oldest departments, and was established in 1926 as part of the Institute for Asian and African Studies and the foundational core of the university. The first faculty of the department were largely German-trained scholars, including Prof. Josef Horowitz and Prof. Gotthold Weil, who were joined by scholars of a variety of fields including Prof. L. A. Mayer, Prof. Levi Billig, Prof. D. Z. Baneth, and Prof. S. D. Goitein.