[Antiquitas] Guest talks on Arabian epigraphy and Quranic Arabic (Tuesday, April 24, at 5.15–7 pm, Fabianinkatu 24, room 524)

[Lindstedt, Ilkka J]

The Ancient and Medieval Middle East seminar hosts
two guest talks (open for public)


Tuesday 24.4.2018, at 5.15–7 pm.
Faculty hall of the Faculty of Theology (Fabianinkatu 24, room 524, access from the inner courtyard of Vuorikatu 3)

Ahmad Al-Jallad: “How and why the Nabataean script dominated the Arabian Peninsula in Late Antiquity”
Professor Ahmad Al-Jallad (Leiden University) specializes in the early history of Arabic and North Arabian.  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.  He has written the first grammar of Safaitic, a corpus of Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from northern Jordan and southern Syria: An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (Brill, 2015, 2nd ed. 2018).

Marijn van Putten: “The language of the Quran: what is it, and how do we know?”
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.


The event is sponsored by the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires,
University of Helsinki



Best regards,

Ilkka Lindstedt

Fellow (PhD)

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

University of Helsinki
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