Open lecture by Ilkka Lindstedt

Warmly welcome to the open lecture by Senior Lecturer Ilkka Lindstedt (University of Helsinki) on

The Rise of Islam in Multicultural Arabia

on 24th September at 10:00-11:30 online via Zoom. The Zoom link: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/63138343623 (Meeting ID: 631 3834 3623).

Bio

Ilkka Lindstedt (Ph.D., University of Helsinki, 2014) is Lecturer in Islamic theology at the University of Helsinki. He has published scholarly articles on pre-Islamic Arabia, early Islam, Arabic epigraphy, and Arabic historiography. He is particularly interested in changes in religious groups and ideas in late antique Arabia. His monograph Muhammad and His Followers in Context