Jaakko Hameen-Anttila
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Room 2/24
19 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Availability
Office hours: Monday 1-2 pm.
Background
He earned his PhD from the University of Helsinki (Finland) in 1994. Before coming to Edinburgh in June 2016, he worked as a Senior Researcher of the Finnish Academy 1997-2000 and Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Helsinki 2000-2016.
Undergraduate teaching
- Classical Arabic Literature
- Mystical Islam (Sufism)
- Contribution to the core course History and Culture of Iran
Current PhD students supervised
- Inka Nokso-Koivisto, Microcosm-Macrocosm Analogy in Rasa'il Ikhwan as-Safa' and Certain Related Texts (Helsinki).
- Ilkka Lindstedt, The Transmission of al-Madāʾinī’s Material. Historiographical Studies (Helsinki).
Research summary
- Late Antiquity and Early Arab-Islamic culture
- translation and transmission of literature (Middle Persian - Arabic - Classical Persian)
- the Qur'an
- the literary debate as a genre from Mesopotamia to modern Arabic and Persian literature.
Current research interests
Dr Hämeen-Anttila is interested in Classical Arabic and Persian literature, Umayyad and Abbasid cultural history, the influence of Late Antiquity on the Arab-Islamic culture, the Qur'an, and translation and transmission of literature and culture in the area (Mesopotamia, Greece, Iran, Classical Arabic culture, and its influence on Europe).Research activities
Project activity
Dr Hämeen-Anttila is editing a part of al-Maqrizi's al-Khabar 'an al-bashar for Brill's Bibliotheca Maqriziana. He is also writing a monograph on the Middle Persian Khwadaynamag (Book of Kings) and its influence on Arabic and Persian historiography.
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Mesopotamia and the Early Arabic and Islamic World
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
al-Khansā's poem in -ālahā and its Qur'ānic echoes : The long and the short of it
(15 pages)
In:
Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186318000305
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia
In:
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 536-538
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2018.1522158
Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (E-pub ahead of print) -
Scripture, poetry and the making of a community : Read-ing the Qurʾān as a literary text, by Angelika Neuwirth
In:
Ilahiyat Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 151-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2018.91
Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Recognition in the Arabic narrative tradition : Discovery, Deliverance and Delusion. By Philip E. Kennedy, Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
In:
Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, vol. 1-2, pp. 1-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186318000159
Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review (E-pub ahead of print) -
Islam and the sanctity of Jerusalem
In:
Studies in Rewritten Bible
Contribution to journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Khwadaynamag : The Middle Persian Book of Kings
Book/Report › Book (Published) -
Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar : (Vol. V, section 4). Persia and Its Kings, Part I
Book/Report › Book (Published) -
The Christian context of the Qur'an
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published) -
Uusi Islamin Kasikirja
Book/Report › Book (Published)