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Professor Jaakko H채meen-Anttila
is a leading Finnish researcher of Islam and a celebrated non-fiction author. He likes to emphasise the positive aspects of Islam, because its negative elements tend to receive enough attention of their own accord. H채meen-Anttila has also been active as a translator into Finnish, most notably making new versions of the Koran and the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as the first Finnish Arabian Nights to have been translated from the original text. His next book, a scientific exploration of the interaction between Arabian and Persian literature, will be in English.