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Caterina Bori

Associate Professor

Department of History and Cultures

Academic discipline: STAA-01/J History of Islamic Countries

Research

Keywords: Siyasa-Shar'iyya Theology from below Mamluk period Qur'an Historiography Origins of Islam Social History of the Islamic Middle Period Reception of Neo-Hanbali Scholars (xiv-xvi)

  • Religion, religious culture, and society of the Islamicate Arabic-speaking societies in their Middle Ages (1000 to 1500 AD ca.).
    • Ibn Taymiyya: biographical tradition, thought, memory, legacy, early modern receptions (14th-17th centuries).
    • Siyāsa, sharī‘a, administration of justice (14th to 15th centuries).
    • Sīra culture in the late Middle period - Sīra studies.
    • Manuscripts studies.
    • Book culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate societies.
    • Historiography of the formative period of Islam (7th-10th centuries AD).
    • Qur’ānic studies.
    • Method and Theory in Islamic Studies.
    • Method and Theory in Historical Investigation (with a focus on area studies).