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).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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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) -
Khwadaynamag : The Middle Persian Book of Kings
Book/Report › Book (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) -
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) -
Contacts and Interaction : Proceedings of the 27th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Helsinki 2014
(504 pages)
Book/Report › Scholarly edition (Published)