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mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Tuesday 24.4.2018, at 5.15–7 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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(Fabianinkatu 24, room 524, access from the inner courtyard of Vuorikatu 3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Ahmad Al-Jallad: “How and why the Nabataean script dominated the Arabian Peninsula
in Late Antiquity”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Professor Ahmad Al-Jallad (Leiden University) specializes in the
early history of Arabic and North Arabian.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
He has done research on Arabic from the pre-Islamic period based on documentary sources, the Graeco-Arabica, language classification, North Arabian epigraphy, and historical Semitic linguistics.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>He has written the first grammar of Safaitic, a corpus of Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from northern Jordan and southern Syria:
<i>An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions </i>(Brill, 2015, 2<sup>nd</sup> ed. 2018).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Marijn van Putten: “The language of the Quran: what is it, and how do we know?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Marijn van Putten is a linguist at Leiden University who specializes
in Arabic and Berber historical linguistics. His current post-doctoral research project “Before the Grammarians: Arabic in the formative period of Islam” aims to reconstruct the language of the early Islamic period, using sources such as early Islamic papyri,
Quranic documents and transcriptions in non-Arabic scripts. He is currently working specifically on the reconstruction of Quranic Arabic as it can be deduced from the Quranic Consonantal Text.
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in Ancient Near Eastern Empires, </span></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">University of Helsinki<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Best regards,</p>
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<p>Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies</p>
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