Amine Xhakoni

Amine Xhakoni is a PhD student in Philosophy, Science, Cognition, and Semiotics (XL cycle) at the University of Bologna. She is part of the ERC project UseFool - Knowledge and manipulation of nature between usefulness and deception in the Arabo-Islamic tradition (9th–15th century) (consolidator grant agreement no. 101043939).

Her research focuses on the transmission, circulation, and reception of philosophical and scientific knowledge between late antiquity and the pre-modern period, with particular emphasis on manuscript traditions and technical literature relating to natural properties in the mediaeval Arabo-Islamic milieu.


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