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"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Tweets on rocks, Prophet’s companions on papyri:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">New discoveries from the pre- and early Islamic Near East<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">KAKSI VIERAILULUENTOA/TWO GUEST TALKS (open invitation)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Perjantai 29.4.2016, klo 16–18.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Unioninkatu 40 (Metsätalo), sali 4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Michael Macdonald: “Tweets from the desert: Social networking among Arabia’s
ancient nomads”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">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
<i>Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia </i>(2009). Among his research interests are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">- The languages and inscriptions of ancient Arabia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">- Literacy in the ancient and late antique Near East.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">- Arabian rock-art.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">- The history of the nomads of Syria, Jordan and Arabia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Fred Donner: “The debate over Islam’s origins and an enigmatic
Arabic papyrus”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">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 <i>
The Early Islamic Conquests</i> (1981). Close work with the sources of the early period of Islamic history culminated in his
<i>Narratives of Islamic Origins</i> (1998). The book attempts to explain how concerns for legitimacy in the developing community shaped the themes of Arabic historiography.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">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
<i>Muhammad and the Believers</i> (2010).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
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line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
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</span><span lang="FI"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/s65p6pz0mlyvltr/Mainos%20juliste%20-%20vers.%202.pdf?dl=0" id="LPlnk651410"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">https://www.dropbox.com/s/s65p6pz0mlyvltr/Mainos%20juliste%20-%20vers.%202.pdf?dl=0</span></a></span><br>
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"Gentium Plus";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">for the ad poster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:ilkka.lindstedt@helsinki.fi">ilkka.lindstedt@helsinki.fi</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:"Gentium Plus";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Ilkka Lindstedt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Arabic and Islamic studies</p>
<p>University of Helsinki<br>
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