[Antiquitas] KAKSI VIERAILULUENTOA/TWO GUEST TALKS: MICHAEL MACDONALD AND FRED DONNER, Friday 29.4.2016 at 4–6 pm, Unioninkatu 40 (Metsätalo), sali 4

[Lindstedt, Ilkka J]

Tweets on rocks, Prophet’s companions on papyri:
New discoveries from the pre- and early Islamic Near East

KAKSI VIERAILULUENTOA/TWO GUEST TALKS (open invitation)

Date: Friday 29.4.2016 at 4–6 pm.
Address: Unioninkatu 40 (Metsätalo), sali 4.


Michael Macdonald: “Tweets from the desert: Social networking among Arabia’s ancient nomads”
Michael Macdonald is Research Associate of the Khalili Research Centre and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He is a leading scholar of ancient Arabian languages. A collection of his articles has been printed as Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia (2009). Among his research interests are:
- The languages  and inscriptions of ancient Arabia.
- Literacy in the ancient and late antique Near East.
- Arabian rock-art.
- The history of the nomads of Syria, Jordan and Arabia.

Fred Donner: “The debate over Islam’s origins and an enigmatic Arabic papyrus”
Fred M. Donner is Professor of Near Eastern History at the University of Chicago.  Donner has been a prolific author of early Islamic history. His first book was The Early Islamic Conquests (1981). Close work with the sources of the early period of Islamic history culminated in his Narratives of Islamic Origins (1998). The book attempts to explain how concerns for legitimacy in the developing community shaped the themes of Arabic historiography.
Furthermore, he concluded that Islam’s roots lay in what can be called the “Believers’ movement,” which was a stringently monotheistic and pietistic movement that also included Jews and Christians. These ideas he developed in his Muhammad and the Believers (2010).

See https://www.dropbox.com/s/s65p6pz0mlyvltr/Mainos%20juliste%20-%20vers.%202.pdf?dl=0 for the ad poster.


You are all heartily welcome! Feel free to circulate this announcement!

The event can be participated by anyone interested (no registration required). The event is sponsored by the Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East project, Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki.



Best,

Ilkka Lindstedt


Postdoctoral researcher (PhD)

Arabic and Islamic studies

University of Helsinki
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