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Caterina Bori

Associate Professor

Department of History and Cultures

Academic discipline: L-OR/10 History of Islamic Countries

Publications

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Publications prior to 2004

2019

  • The Many Roads to Justice : A Case of Adultery in Sixteenth Century Cairo., in: L. Biasiori - C. Ginzburg, A Historical Approach to Casuistry. Norms and Exceptions in Comparative Perspective, London- New York, Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 113-131.
  • "Machiavelli, Islam and the East : per una lettura critica", in Quaderni Storici (forthcoming).
  • "Ms Istanbul Şehid Ali Paşa 1553 : a Neglected Version of Ibn Taymīya’s al-Siyāsa al-Sharʿīya and its Manuscript", in ASK collective volume, Bonn University Press (forthcoming).
  • Sīra and Ḥadith Culture in the Later Middle Period: Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimašqī (d. 842/1438) as a Case in Point, in Arabica (forthcoming).

2018

  • Review of: Dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb Territories, People, Identities, «CROMOHS», 2018, 21, pp. 143 - 149.
  • "Religious Knowledge between Scholarly Conservatism and Commoners' Agency", in: Armando Salvatore et al. (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell History of Islam (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018), 290-309.
  • Guest editor: Ibn Taymiyya: Receptions (14th–17th Century), special issue of The Muslim World 108/1 (2018), pp. 206.
  • "Ibn Taymiyya (14th to 17thcentury): Transregional spaces of reading and reception", The Muslim World 108/1 (2018), 87-123.

2017-2016

  • "Il pensiero politico sunnita nel medioevo islamico. La questione del califfato: al-Mawardi (m. 1058) e Ibn Taymiyya (m. 1328)", in: Storia del pensiero politico islamico, Massimo Campanini (ed.), Milano: Mondadori, 2017, pp. 47-67.
  • "One or two versions of al-Siyāsa al-shari'iyya of Ibn Taymiyya? And what do they tell us?, ASK Working Papers 26, Bonn: 2016 (ISSN 2193-925X).
  • art. "al-Dhahabi", in: Encylopaedia of Islam THREE, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2016), Pt. 1, pp. 73-80 [voce di enciclopedia].
  • Review of Sophia Vasalou, Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 319 pp. + Bibliography and Index, ISBN: 978-0-19-9399783-9, in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 11 (2016), 256-257.

2015

  • Review of Abdul-Rahman Mustafa, On Taqlid. Ibn al-Qayyim's Critique of Authority in Islamic Law, (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In: Ilahiyyat 6/1 (2015), pp. 130-36 [articolo-recensione].
  • Review of Rebecca Williams, Muhammad and the Supernatural Medieval Arab Views, London-New York: Routledge 2013, in: Islam and Muslim Christian Relations 2015 (online) [recensione].
  • Review of Viviane COMERRO, Les traditions sur la constitution du muṣḥaf deʿUthman, Beirut: Orient- Institut, Wurzburg: Erlon Verlag, 2012 and Gabriel Said REYNOLDS (ed.), New Perspectives on the Qur’ān. The Qurʾān in its Historical Context 2, Oxon: Routledge, 2011 in: in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 2015, pp. 273-275.

2014

  • art. "Hasan Kafi al-Aqhisari", in: The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Islam and Politics (Oxford-New York, Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 80-83 [voce di enciclopedia] 
  • "Un caos senza speranza? Studiare il Corano oggi", in: Alfred -Louis de Prémare, Alle origini del Corano, edizione italiana a cura di Caterina Bori (Roma: Carocci, 2014), pp. 11-59 [saggio introduttivo]
  • Alfred-Louis de Prémare, Alle origini del Corano, edizione italiana a cura di Caterina Bori (Roma: Carocci, 2014) [curatela];
  • David Bertaina, Christian and Muslim Dialogues. The Religious Uses of a Literary Form in the Early Islamic  Middle East (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011), 247pp. + Bibliography and Index, Adamantius 19 (2014,) 605-607 [recensione];
  • Konrad Hirschler, The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands. A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), 201 pp. + Bibliography and Index, in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 9 (2014),339-40 [recensione];

2013

  • "Theology, Politics and Society: the Missing Link. Studying Religion in the Mamluk Period" in: Stephan Conermann (ed.): Ubi sumus? Quo vademus? Mamluk Studies - State of the Art (Gottingen: Bonn University Press 2013), pp. 57-94 [capitolo in volume collettaneo] ;
  • Kristen Stilt, Islamic Law in Action. Authority Discretion and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), Pp. xii + 238, in: The Mamluk Studies Review XVII (2013,) pp. 251-53 [recensione];
2012
  • "All We Know is What We Have Been Told": Reflections on Emigration and Land as Divine Heritage in the Qur'an  in: Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourie (ed.s), The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2012), pp. 303-340 [capitolo in volume collettaneo]
  • Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Analecta, vol. iv, a cura di U. Vermeulen e J. van Steenbergen (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), pp. 496 - in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi 7 n.s (2012), pp.269-271. [recensione]
  • Gabriel Sayed Reynolds, The Qur'an and its Biblical Subtext, London: Routledge, 2010 -  in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi 7 n.s (2012), pp. 268-269. [recensione]
  • Gabriel sayed Reynolds (ed.), The Qur'an in its Historical Context, London: Routledge: 2008 - in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi 7 n.s (2012), pp. 266-268. [recensione]

2011

  • - con Livnat Holtzman, "A Scholar in the Shadow", in: A Scholar in the Shadow: Essays in the Legal and Theological Thought of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, pp. 13-44 [capitolo in volume collettaneo]
  • - con Livnat Holtzman (a cura di), A Scholar in the Shadow : Essays in the Legal and Theological Thought of Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya, numero monografico di Oriente Moderno, n.s XC/1 (2010) (Roma: Herder), 258 pp. + bibliografia ed indici (volume apparso nel 2011) [curatela]

recensito da:

Rodrigo Adem, in:The Mamluk Studies Review 18 (2014-2015), 327-330.

Ahmad El Shamsy, in: Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 16/1 (2014), 156–172.

Imran Iqbal, in: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 23/4 (2012), pp. 540-543.

Miriam ben Moshe, Review of a A Scholar in the Shadow: Essays in the Legal and Theological Thought of Ibn Qayyim al-Gawziyyah, in: Sehepunkte. Rezensionjournal fur die Geschichtswissenschaften 13 (2013), Nr. 4 (http://www.sehepunkte.de/2013/04/22887.html).

Gino Schallenberg, in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 76/2 (2013), pp 306-307.

2010                  

  • Ibn Taymiyya wa-Jama'atuhu. Authority, Conflict and Consensus in Ibn  Taymiyya's circle, in: Yossef Rapoport - Muhammad Shahab Ahmed (a cura di), Ibn Taymiyya and his Times (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 23-52 [capitolo in volume collettaneo]

2009                  

  • The Collection and Edition of Ibn Taymiyya's works: Concerns of  Disciple, in: The Mamluk Studies Review xiii/2 (2009), pp. 47-67 [articolo].
  • J. Hoover, Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism(Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill, 2007) in Mamluk Studies Review 13/1 (2009), pp. 173-77. [recensione]
  • Alfred-Louis de Prémare, John Wansbrough e le origini dell'Islam: questioni di ieri, letture di oggi, in Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 4 (2009), pp. 137-158 [articolo] 
  • Il pensiero radicale islamico da Ibn Abd al-Wahhab a Mawdudi e Sayyid Qutb: tradizione o modernit, in Le religioni e il mondo moderno, a cura di Giovanni Filoramo, vol. III, Islam, a cura di Roberto Tottoli,(Torino: Einaudi, 2009), pp. 69-113 [capitolo in volume collettaneo]
  • D. Sourdel-J. Sourdel-Thomine, Certificats de pélerinage d'époque ayyoubide. Contribution à  l'histoire de l'idéologie de l'Islam au temps de croisades (Paris:  L'Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres, 2006) in Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 4 (2009), pp. 225-226 [recensione].

2008

  • Alfred-Louis de Prémare, Aux Origines du Coran: Approches d'hier, questions d'aujourd'hui (Paris: Téraèdre, 2004) in: Oriente Moderno n.s. 88/1 (2008), pp. 210-213 [recensione].
  • Classical Islam. A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, edited and translated by Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin (London: Routledge, 2003), in Quaderni di Studi Arabi 3 (2008), pp. 242-43 [recensione].
  • Halevi, Muhammad's Grave. Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), in Quaderni di Studi Arabi 3 (2008), pp. 245-46 [recensione].
  • S. Wild (ed.), Self -Referentiality in the Qur'an, Diskurse der Arabistik11 (Harrasowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden: 2006) in Quaderni di Studi Arabi 3 (2008), p. 243-45 [recensione].

2007

  • Thélogie politique et Islam. Théocratie, dualisme et représensentation entre théorie et pratique, in: Revue de l'Histoire des Religions 224/1 (2007), pp. 5-47 [articolo].

2006

  • M. Bonner, Le Jihad, origines, interprétations et combat, traduit de l'anglais par Alix Barreau, L'Islam en débats (Paris: Téraèdre, 2004) in : Islamochristiana (2006), pp. 314-317 [recensione].
  • C. Bori - S. Pagani, Lo Specchio dello straniero in Il Manifesto 21 Settembre, 2006 [articolo stampa]

2005

  • Ibn Taymiyya contro i filosofi logici, in:  Storia della filosofia nell'Islam Medievale, a cura di Cristina d'Ancona (Einaudi:  Torino 2005) I, pp. 164-66 e 173-79 [traduzione].
  • Intervista con Bianca Maria Scarcia Amoretti (a cura di), Il mondo islamico tra interazione e acculturazione, in Alifba. Studi e ricerche sul mondo arabo-islamico e mediterraneo xix (2005), pp. 57-60.

2004

  • A new source for the biography of Ibn Taymiyya, in:  Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 67/3 (2004), pp. 321-48 [articolo].
  • E di tutte le cose creammo una coppia.  La teologia femminista islamica contemporanea, in: Annali di studi religiosi 5 (2004), pp. 117-27 [articolo].
  •  voce, Egira, in:  I racconti della storia, vol. IV, a cura di Chiara Ottaviano, Grande dizionario di storia, Garzanti Torino 2004, pp. 100-09 [voce di enciclopedia]

2003

  • Ibn Taymiyya: una vita esemplare. Analisi delle fonti classiche della sua biografia.  Supplemento monografico n. 1 alla Rivista di Studi Orientali, LXXVI (2003) (Pisa-Roma:  Istituti Poligrafici Internazionali,  2003), 233p [monografia].

1999

  • Notions of the Heart in the Qur'an and Muslim Tradition, in: Annali di storia dell'esegesi 15/2 (1999), pp. 389-415 [articolo].