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Marco Demichelis

Ricercatore in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne

Settore scientifico disciplinare: STAA-01/J Storia dei paesi islamici

Curriculum vitae

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                                                                                                       Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

 

Marco Demichelis, PhD.

Date and Place of Birth: 1979, Torino

Italian Address: Via Grazia Deledda 13, 10060 Candiolo (To), Italia

  1. Mail: m.demichelis@unigre.it

marco.demichelis2@unibo.it

  1. Mobile: +39-3491326583

 

 

                                                                                                          Current Academic position

 

 

[October 2024- Now] Assistant Prof. (Tenure-Track) in History of the Islamic World, History of Islamic Thought, Lilec, Department of Language, Literature and Modern Cultures, Alma Mater University of Bologna.

                                                                                                    Previous Academic position

 Research Fellowships

-[October 2023- September 2024] Senior Research Fellow in Islamic Studies and History of the Islamic World, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Alma Mater University of Bologna. Project of Research: A moment of Vision: il “Conciliarismo” quattrocentesco e l’inclusione dell’alterità islamica, Supervisor: Prof. Ines Peta.

-[1-6/2023] Berenson Fellowship, Harvard University, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for the Study of Italian Renaissance (FI), Italy. Project of Research: Paolo Giovio, Giovanni Botero and Islamic Otherness at the End of the Italian Renaissance (XVI-XVII centuries).

-[June 2019 – May 2021] Senior Research Fellow in Islamic Studies and History of Middle East at the ICS, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra (Es). Member of the Doctoral Council of the Faculty of History, University of Navarra (2019-2021)

-[June 2017 – May 2019] Marie Curie Experienced Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra (Es). Project of research title: Qur’an and Qital. The violence against the Other in a historical critical deradicalizing perspective. Supervisors: Prof. Montserrat Herrero, Prof. Santi Aurell.

-[February 2013 – January 2017] Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Islamic Studies and History of Middle East, Department of Religious Studies, Catholic University of Milan. Project of research title: Fanā’ al-Nār fī al- Kalām wa al-Falsafa. A study on the Annihilation of Hell within Arab/Islamic Thought. Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Branca.

Visiting Researcher, Visiting Fellow

-(January – March 2018) Marie Curie Visiting Research Fellow in Islamic Studies and History of Middle East, Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Lyon. Research project title: Qur’an and Qital. The violence against the Other in a historical critical perspective.

-(October – December 2017) Marie Curie Visiting Research Fellow in Islamic Studies and History of Middle East, Department of Oriental Studies, Otto- Friedrich Universität Bamberg. Research project title: Qur’an and Qital. The violence against the Other in a historical critical perspective.

-(March – December 2014) MacMillan Center, Yale University, Post-Doctoral Visiting Research Fellow in Islamic Studies and History of Middle East. Research project title: Al Fanā‘al-Nār fī al-Kalām wa al-Falsafa. A study on the annihilation of the Annihilation of Hell within Arab/Islamic Thought.

-(March- May 2011) IFPO, Institut Francais du Proche Orient, Damascus, Syria, Research work to edit academic articles and conference papers.

-(November – December 2007) PISAI (Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e Islamistica), Rome, Italy, Research work for PhD dissertation.

-(May- July 2007) IFPO, Institut Francais du Proche Orient, Damascus, Syria, Research work for PhD dissertation.

Research groups

  • ICS membership. Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra. Research Fellow in the Religion and Civil Society group (2017-2021).

  • Pluriel Academic platform, [https://pluriel.fuce.eu/?lang=en], University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Middle East (2016-2021).

  • Junior Researcher within Oasis Foundation (Milan, 09/2014-12/2015). Project Title: Knowing the Hybrid society; govern change. A public understanding of religion and religiosity in the contemporary western world. Working issues on: 1) Secularization and new forms of religiosity; 2) Religious Fundamentalism and Violence;3) Religions, media and communication; 4) Freedom of Speech and expression; 5) Islamo- Christiana Dialogue; 6) The European’s Idea and the Islamic World. The Project started in Fall 2014 ended in December 2015.

Editorial membership

  • Editorial Team (since 12/2023), Dive-In. An international Journal on Diversity & Inclusion, LILEC, Alma Mater University of Bologna.

  • Member of the Editorial Board of Religions (Scopus/Scimago Q1, since 2022)

  • Official Peer-Reviewer for Religions, MDPI editor (Scopus/Scimago Q1, since 2021)

Abilitazione

- Italian Qualification (Abilizatione) L-OR10 as Associate Professor in History of the Islamic World, 25th of February 2023.

-Italian Qualification (Abilitazione) 14/B2 as Associate Professor in History of International Relations of not-Europeans Institutes and Societies, 6th of May 2019.

 

                                                                                                                        Teaching Activities

[Spring semester 2025] Assist. Prof. in History of Islamic Thought, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University Alma Mater of Bologna (60 hours)/ Assist. Prof. in History of the Islamic World, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University Alma Mater of Bologna (60 hours).

[Fall semester 2023] Research Fellow/Adjunct Prof. in History of Islamic Thought, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University Alma Mater of Bologna (60 hours).

[Fall semester 2022] Adjunct Prof. in History of Islamic Thought, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University Alma Mater of Bologna (60 hours).

[Spring Semester 2020] Senior Fellow in History of the Middle East, Department of International Relations, Academic course, “Arab-Islamic Politics in the Middle East. From the 1WW to now”, Unav, second Semester 2020 (distance learning module, 32 hours)

[Spring Semester 2019] Senior Fellow, PPE “Society and Politics” Academic course, Module III, “Religion and Society in the Mediterranean”, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, Unav, 25th of March 2019-12th of April 2019 (12 hours)

[Spring Semester 2015] Post- Doctoral Research Fellow in Islamic Studies and History of Middle East (Spring Semester 2015), Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Department of Religious Studies, Catholic University of Milan: “History of Arab-Islamic Literature” (32 hours).

[Spring Semester 2013] Post- Doctoral Research Fellow in Islamic Studies and History of Middle East (Spring Semester 2013), Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Department of Religious Studies, Catholic University of Milan, History of Arab-Islamic Literature (32 hours).

[Spring Semester 2012] Adjunct Prof. in History of the Islamic World, Spring Semester (2012), Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Turin, History of Arab world and the West Mediterranean (54 hours).

[Fall Semester 2012] Adjunct Prof. Master course in Mediterranean Studies, faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Turin, Module of 12 hours of lessons on Maghreb and Mashrek history from decolonization to contemporary decades.

[Fall semester 2011] Adjunct Prof. in History of the Islamic World, Faculty of Theology, University of Turin, Introduction to Islamic Studies (54 hours).

[Spring semester 2011] Adjunct Prof. in History of Islamic World, Spring Semester (2011), Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Turin, History of the Arab Literature (54 hours).

[Fall semester 2010] Adjunct Prof. in History of Islamic World, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Turin, History of the Islamic World (54 hours).


                                                                                                                                    Education

[2007- 2010] PhD in History of the Islamic Thought, Faculty of Political Science, University of Genoa (Italy), March 2010. Dissertation’s title: The Muʿtazila. A political and theological analysis. Supervisors: Prof. Anna Maria Lazzarino del Grosso (University of Genoa), Prof. Massimo Campanini (University of Trento).

[2006-2007] MA in African Studies at Dalarna Hogskolan, Sweden, (2006-2007). With pertinent interest in: African History, Religion and Politics in Africa, Dynamics of African Societies, Education and Change in Africa, Democracy and Human Rights in Africa and Economic Development in the African Continent. M.A. Thesis (60 pages) titled: History of Ethiopian Resistance to Muslim Encroachment (XV-XVI centuries).

[2004] MA in Peacekeeping Management, Faculty of Political Science, University of Turin. With pertinent interest in: Institution Building, Peacekeeping- Peace Enforcing- Peace Making operations, Conflict resolution. Specific case-studies analyzed during the academic year: Mitrovica Kosova (Kosovo), Somalia, Kivu (Congo), Zavidovici (Bosnia), Palestine-West Bank and Gaza. MA Thesis (50 pages) entitled: The Negotiation with Arabs, some sociological and anthropological guidelines.

[1999- 2003] BA in Political Science and International Relations, University of Turin. Specialization in the History of North America, the History and Institutions of the Middle East and Arabic Language and Linguistics (Arabic I, II, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Turin).

  • Language experiences abroad

  • Spanish: Ilce academic course, University of Navarra (Fall 2018)

  • Arabic: Private lessons (40 hours) with a native language university professor during my stay in Damascus Syria, March-May 2011.

  • Arabic: Spring Semester of Modern Standard Arabic, Birzeit University, West Bank, Palestine, January 2009- April 2009. Advanced level.

  • Arabic: Spring Semester of Modern Standard Arabic, Birzeit University, West Bank, Palestine, January 2008- April 2008. Upper intermediate level.

  • Arabic: Private lessons (60 hours) with a native language university professor during my stay in Damascus, Syria, June and July 2007

  • Arabic: Summer school of Arabic, Yemen Language Center, Sana’a, July 2004

  • Arabic: Summer School in Arabic, Moroccan dialect, and Maghreb culture, Rabat University Mohammad V, Faculty of Foreign Language, July 2003

  • French: Summer School, College International de Cannes, July 2000, Advanced level

 

                                                                                                                                   Publications

 

    1. Monographs (Reviews of my books: Demichelis Marco | Università di Bologna-Academia.edu [https://unibo.academia.edu/DemichelisMarco/Reviews-of-my-books] )

 

  1. Violence in Early Islam. Religious Narratives, the Arab Conquests and the Canonization of Jihad, London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2021.

  2. Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought: Allah may save us all? London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

  3. L’Islam contemporaneo. Sfide e Riflessioni tra modernità e modernismo (Islam in the contemporary. Challenges and reflections between modernity and modernism). Torino: Anankelab, 2016.

  4. Etica Islamica. Ragione e Responsabilità (Islamic Ethics. Reason and Responsibility), Milano: Edizioni Paoline, 2016/ Etica islamica. Razon y responsabilidad, tr. Soledad A. Domingo, Astrolabio Series, Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 2021.

  5. Storia dei Popoli Arabi. Dal Profeta Muhammad alle Primavere del Vicino Oriente, (History of the Arab Peoples. From the Prophet Muhammad to the Springs of the Near East), Torino: Anankelab editore, 2013, 2ed. 2015.

  6. Il pensiero mu‘tazilita. Ragione e fede tra Basra e Baghdad nei primi secoli dell’Islam, (The mu‘tazilite thought. Reason and Faith between Basra and Baghdad in Early Islamic History, PhD Diss.), Paris/ Torino: Harmattan, 2011.

     

            2. Edited works

 

      1. Special Issue (2025): University of Konstanz, International Conference (25 October, 31 October, 8 November 2024): Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and Around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614), ed. by Dr. James Wilson, Dr. Eric Böhme, Dr. A. Pelaez Martin, Prof. Marco Demichelis, Religions | Special Issue: University of Konstanz, International Conference (25 October, 31 October, 8 November 2024): Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614) (mdpi.com) [https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Z3H162B632]

      2. Special Issue (2022): The Qur’an in History. The History of the Qur’an. From Canonization to critique and Semantic Hermeneutics, Ed. Dr. Marco Demichelis, Religions (Q1 Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), MDPI, [https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/QH_HQ_FCCS] [https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/QH_HQ_FCCS] .

      3. Religious Violence, Political Ends. Nationalism, citizenship and radicalizations in the Middle East and Europe, Religion and Civil Society Series, Ed by Demichelis Marco, Hildesheim: OLMS-Weidmann, 2018.

      4. The Struggle to Define a Nation. Rethinking Religious Nationalism in the Contemporary Islamic World, Ed. by Marco Demichelis and Paolo Maggiolini, Piscataway NJ: Gorgias Press, 2017.

      5. Memorie con-divise. Popoli, Stati e Nazioni nel Mediterraneo e nel Medio- Oriente (Shared memories. Peoples, States and Nations in the Mediterranean and Middle East), edited by Prof. Paolo Branca and Dr. Demichelis Marco, Milano: Leggere Leggere editore, 2013.

     

    3. Academic articles in peer-reviewed Journals (Scopus/ Fascia A Anvur)

 

  1. The River Nile and who holds power over its waters; a study on the Islamic Sources, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies (JAIS), 25/5 (2025), special Issue entitled: Environmental Changes in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives, guest-edited by Chiara Fontana and Ines Peta, pp. 69-87 (Fascia A Anvur).

  2. The Conciliarist Idea of Islam in the Quattrocento. Prelude and Legacy, Religions (Q1 Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), MDPI ed. 15 (2024), pp. 1-21.

  3. Al-Andalus oltre la geografia di al-Andalus. Jabal al-Qilāl: storia, narrazioni e dubbi, Kharabat. Rivista di Studi Indo-Mediterrenei, XII (2023), pp. 1-11.

  4. The “Mestiere delle Armi”. Steel, trade and anonymity in the early Islamic age (7-10th), Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (Lamine) series, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024 (in press).

  5. Qur’anic Christology in Late Antiquity. ‘Isa ibn Maryam and His Divine Power (Energeia) in the Islamic Revelation, Religions (Q1 Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), MDPI ed. 12/11 979 (2021), pp. 1-19.

  6. Arab Christians Confederations and Muhammad’s believers: on the Origins of Jihad, Religions (Q1 Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), MDPI ed. 12/710 (2021), pp. 1-20.

  7. Jihadism au rebours: Orientalism and Occidentalism for a counter-Hegemonic Liberation Theology,Journal of Religious History (Q3 Scopus), 45/1 (2021), pp. 1-19.

  8. The Khatim an-Nabiyyin (The Seal of Prophets) and its inclusive- Abrahamic perspective. Muhammad and ‘Isa ibn Maryam in dialogue, Religions (Q1 Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), MDPI ed., 12/1 (2021), pp. 1-16.

  9. Was Egyptian Islamic Revivalism really counter-Hegemonic? S. Qutb and the problem of Islamic Consciousness, in ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies 5/1 (2019), pp. 47-72.

  10. “Fasad, Hijra and Warlike Diaspora” from Early Islam geographic boundaries towards a new Dar al- Hikma: Europe, Religions (Q1 Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), 10/277 (2019) in Special Issue, Ed. Roberta Ricucci, Muslims Diaspora in Western Countries.

  11. The Fate of Others in Fourteenth-Century Hanbalism. Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328/728) and Ibn Qayyim al- Jawziyya (d. 1350/750) and the Fanā’ al-Nār, in Annali di Scienze Religiose (Fascia A Anvur), n. 9, Brepols Publishers, (2017), pp. 271-294.

  12. Fanā’ al-Nār within early Kalām and Mysticism. An analysis covering the Eighth and Ninth Centuries, in Archiv Orientalni (Q3 Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), Oriental Institute of Praha, 2015, Vol. 83.3, pp. 385-410.

  13. Kalām viewpoints present within the debate on secularisation between F. Anṭūn and M. ‘Abduh. God’s absolutism and Islām’s irrationality as cornerstones of Orientalist Arab-Christian thought during the Nahḍa, Aram Periodical (Q2Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), 25 1&2, 2016, pp. 335-348.

  14. From Nahda to Nakba: The Governmental Arab College of Jerusalem and the Palestinian historical heritage in the first half of the XX century, Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 37.3, 2015, pp. 264-281.

  15. The Apocatastasis will save us all. The transition towards a shared ethical approach from Christian Patristic to Early Islamic theology and philosophy, Parole de l’ Orient (Q4 Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), Université Saint Esprit de Kaslik (Lebanon), n.1/ 2014, pp. 385-422.

  16. Islamic Liberation Theology, An inter-religious reflection between Gustavo Gutierrez, Farid Esack and Hamid Dabashi, Oriente Moderno (Fascia A Anvur), Leiden: Brill, 94 (2014), pp. 125-147.

  17. Basra, the cradle of Islamic culture. A reasoned analysis of the urban area that was the early home of Islamic Studies, Orientalia Christiana Analecta, Pontifex Oriental University, n. 293, 2013, pp. 191-220.

  18. The Mihna. Deconstruction and reconsideration of the Mu‘tazilite role in the Inquisition, in Annali di Scienze Religiose (Fascia A Anvur), n. 5, Brepols Publishers (2012), pp. 237-266.

  19. Between mu‘tazilism and syncretism: a reappraisal of the behaviour of the caliphate of al-Ma’mun, Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Q1 Scopus, Fascia A Anvur), University of Chicago, 71/2, 2012, pp. 257-273.

  20. New-Mu‘tazilite theology in the contemporary age. The relationship between Reason, History and Tradition, Oriente Moderno (Fascia A Anvur), Leiden: Brill, 2/2010, pp. 411- 426.

  21. Consensus and equality within Arab-Islamic thought of the VII-VIII century CE, in Freedom and Democracy in the History of Political Thought, Rubettino Università ed., Catanzaro, 2008, pp. 197- 205.

 

              4. Book contributions (chapters)

 

  1. “The Andalusi outside al-Andalus. Fraxinetum, Jabal al-Qilāl and the Saracens on the Alps”, in J. Albarran ed., Al-Andalus y la Guerra, Collecciòn Medieval Ibériqua, Madrid: La Ergàstula, 2024, pp. 159-181.

  2. The “Islamic narrative path” for Political, Religious and Bellicose Legitimacy: The role played by Christian Historical Figures in late Antiquity, in L. Gallinari, Beba Abdelnaby (Eds.), Identities in touch between East and West: 11th to 21th centuries., Berlin: Peter Lang Pub., 2022, pp. 65-83.

  3. When does Religion divide the Community? Reconsidering the Dynamics of Violence and Pacification in the 19th century Ottoman Arab Levant, in M. Younes, Anna Hager, L. Basanese et Diego Sarrio Cucarella (Eds.), Islam et Appartenances, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2020, pp. 117-140.

  4. Jihad e Violenza Armata: la grande menzogna, Demichelis Marco, in M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, M. Bombardieri, Capire l’Islam: tra Mito e Realtà, Brescia: Morcelliana Editore, 2019, pp. 127-148.

  5. Islamic Supremacy. The “Early” Islamic century and the Violence against the Other. A Historical-Religions Perspective, in Religious Violence. Political Ends. Nationalism, Citizenship and Radicalizations in the Middle East and Europe, Demichelis M. Ed., Hildesheim: OLMS, Religion and Civil Society Series, 2018, pp. 11-34.

  6. The Dynamics of Islamic Radicalization in Europe and their prevention: a humanistic approach, Demichelis Marco, Giulia Mezzetti, in Ali Moftfa, Michel Younes, L’Islam au Pluriel. Foi, pensée et société, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2018, pp. 225-242.

  7. Syria’s Lebanonization: a Historical excursus within the “non – existence” of Syrian National Identity, in Demichelis Marco, Paolo Maggiolini Eds. The Struggle to Define a Nation. Rethinking Religious Nationalism in the Contemporary Islamic World, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2017, pp. 45-74.

  8. The Oromo and the historical process of Islamization in Ethiopia: Habashah vs. Argobba on the “Acrocoro, in A.C.S. Peacock Ed. Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp. 223-243.

  9. Citizenship and equity. An excursus within the Nahda between Islamic Pluralism and Religious exclusivism, Asia Major 2, Roma: Viella Editore, 2015, pp. 15-31.

  10. Kharijites and Qarmatians; the Islamic pre- democratic thought. A political-theological analysis, Religions and Representation: Islam and Democracy ed. by Ingrid Mattson, Paul Nesbitt Larking and Nawaz Tahir, Cambridge Publishing Press, 2015, p. 101-127.

  11. The Ethiopian studies in Italy, between afro- Orientalism and colonialism, in Italian Orientalism, Antares, Alba, 2011, pp. 90- 107 (not peer-reviewed).

 

5.  Encyclopedia entries and Book Review

 

      1. Book Review: Sara Hejazi, Iran, donne e Rivolte, Brescia: Morcelliana Editore 2023 on Studi Maghrebini, Brill, 21/2 (2023), pp. 257-259.

      2. Christian Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. The Ottoman Empire (1800-1914), Leiden: Brill, 2021; Vol. 18 Entry: Farah Antun, pp. 646-651.

      3. Book Review (Notae): S Gunther, T. Lawson eds. Roads to Paradise. Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam, Leiden: Brill, 2016 on Gregorianum 102/1, 2021, pp. 199-205.

      4. Book Review: N. G. Awad, Umayyad Christianity. John of Damascus as a contextual example of identity formation in Early Islam, Piscatawat, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018, on Gregorianum 101/4, 2020, pp. 1000- 1003.

      5. Book Review: A. Kuru, Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, on Journal of Religious History, 45/1, 2021, pp. 160-161.

      6. Book Review: J. Hodge, S. Cowdell, C. Fleming, C. Osborn (eds), Does Religion cause Violence? Multidisciplinary perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, on Ethical Perspectives, 26/2 (2019), pp. 387-390.

      7. Book Review: Ersilia Francesca (ed.), Ibadi Theology. Rereading sources and scholarly works, “Studies on Ibadism and Oman”, Vol. 4 edited by Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Heinz Gaube, Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlag, 2015, on Oriente Moderno, 96/2 (2016), pp. 431-432.

      8. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam, entries: al-Jahiz, Universities and University (addendum) Classical Islamic Age, Major Discoveries and Inventions, Institution of Science Education, contemporary, Oxford University Press, 2014.

      9. Book Review: M. Hassan Khalil, Islam and the Fate of Others, Oxford University Press, 2012; Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation and the Fate of Others, Oxford University Press, 2013, on The Marginalia Review of Books. (Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis | The Marginalia Review of Books [https://themarginaliareview.com/extra-islam-salus-est/])

      10. Book Review: Albrecht Fuess, Jan- Peter Hartung, Court Cultures in the Muslim World. Seventh to nineteenth centuries. London, Soas/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, 2011, on Storia del Pensiero Politico, il Mulino editore, n.2, 2013.

      11. Fitzpatrick C. & Walker A. (Eds.), Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture. An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2013. Specific Entries: Predestination, Ijtihad, Apocalyptic and Messianic, Governance, Shura, Caliphate and Imamate, John of Damascus.

      12. Mesa Verde Publishing, entries for the Native Peoples of the World Encyclopedia, ed. Steven Danver, New York: Sharpe Reference, 2013, 3 Vols. Titles: Ahmara (Vol. 1, pp. 15-16); Oromo (Vol. 1, pp. 69- 72), Siria (Vol. 3, pp. 680-682); Morocco (Vol. 3, pp. 642-644).

      13. Translation: Françoise Jaquin, «Louis Massignon et Jean Mohammed Abd al-Jalil», Humanitas, Morcelliana Editore, 2013, special issue on Louis Massignon.

      14. Sage publications Inc, The Cultural Sociology of Middle East, Asia and Africa, an Encyclopedia, (Vols. 4, 2012) entries: Fatimids, Vol. 1, pp. 147-149; Mamluk Dynasty, Vol. 1., pp. 157-158; Safavid and Shi’I Iran, Vol. 1, pp. 199-201; Saladin, Vol. 1, pp. 96-97; Suleyman the Magnificent, Vol. 1, pp. 217-219; Jamal ad-din al-Afghani, Vol. 1, pp. 126-127; St. Augustine of Hippo, Vol. 2, pp. 79-81; Islamic Conquests, Vol. 2, pp. 56-57; Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, Vol. 2, pp. 54-55; Italo-Ethiopian war 1895,Vol. 2, pp. 155-156; Italo- Ethiopian war, 1935-1936, Vol. 2., pp. 308- 310; Italo- Ottoman War (Lybia), Vol. 2, pp. 310-311; Selassie, Haile, Vol. 2, pp. 373-375.

      15. ABC-Clio, entries for the World Historical Project, a new historical encyclopedia for undergraduate students. Title: Slave Soldiers in Early Medieval Dar al-Islam – 632-1000 CE, Part II, p. 109.; Alp Arslan: The Brave Lion of Manzikert (1071), Part II, p. 305; Ethiopian Resistance to Muslim Encroachment (XV-XVI centuries), Part II, p. 276

      16. Book Review: Massimo Campanini, Averroe’, Il Mulino editore, 2008, Il Pensiero Politico, Vol. II, 2008, p. 288.

      17. Book Review: Rashid Benzine, Les nouveaux penseurs de l’Islam, Albin Michel, 2004, Il Pensiero Politico, Vol. I, 2009, p. 290.

 

Opinion articles (third mission)

  1. “Musulmanes en Saint-Tropez: al-Andalus fuera de al-Andalus. Datos historicos, narrativas y dudas [https://www.alandalusylahistoria.com/?p=3863] sobre Jabal al-Qilāl [https://www.alandalusylahistoria.com/?p=3863] ”, 12/11/2022, Al-Andalus y la Historia.

  2. “Islam: religione morale etica”, Il Ponte. Rivista di Politica, economia e cultura fondata da Piero Calamandrei, Anno 78/1, 2022.

  3. “Combatir la radicalizacion desde las aulas [https://www.elespanol.com/opinion/tribunas/20170904/244345565_12.html] ”, 05/09/2017, El Espanol.

  4. “Lebano necesita liberarse de su pasado (y de la injerencias externas) [https://theconversation.com/libano-necesita-liberarse-de-su-pasado-y-de-las-injerencias-externas-145637] ”, 7/09/2020, The Conversation.

  5. “El [https://theconversation.com/el-peligro-de-trivializar-el-nuevo-antisemitismo-146939]peligro de trivializar el nuevo antisemitismo [https://theconversation.com/el-peligro-de-trivializar-el-nuevo-antisemitismo-146939] ”, 12/10/2020, The Conversation.

  6. [https://www.esglobal.org/el-islam-de-la-ilustracion-la-bandera-laicista-de-macron/] islam de la Ilustración”, la bandera laicista de Macron”, 03/11/2020, EsGlobal.

  7. “Biden [https://www.esglobal.org/biden-y-la-politica-estadounidense-en-oriente-medio-cambio-de-rumbo-u-oportunismo/]y la política estadounidense en Oriente Medio: ¿cambio de rumbo u oportunismo? [https://www.esglobal.org/biden-y-la-politica-estadounidense-en-oriente-medio-cambio-de-rumbo-u-oportunismo/] ”, 19/11/20209, EsGlobal.

  8. Ricominciare dall’Islam per una preventiva de-radicalizzazione del fondamentalismo religioso. Il contributo delle Humanities (Developing by Islam for preventive de-radicalization of religious fundamentalism. The contribution of the Humanities) in Europa e Islam. Attualità di una relazione, Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2016, pp. 76-84.

  9. Il Califfato Islamico. Propaganda e sostanza all’origine dell’ISIS (The Islamic Caliphate. Propaganda in substance at the origin of Daesh), in Il Tablet e la Mezzaluna. Islam e Media ai tempi del meticciato, Venice. Marsilio Editore, 2016, pp. 44-53.

  10. Islamizzare la Secolarizzazione per laicizzare l’Islam (Islamize Secularization to secularize Islam), in Troppa Religione o Troppo poca? Cristiani e Musulmani alla prova della Secolarizzazione, Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2015, pp. 25-36.

  11. L’Involuzione Wahhabita. Dalle Origini al Neo-Salafismo (The Wahhabi involution. From the Origins to Neo-Salafism), in La Galassia Fondamentalista tra Jihad Armato e Partecipazione Politica, Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2015, pp. 83-94.

  12. Sayyid Qutb, the theorist of Political Islam. The long road to Islamic radicalism, al-Hiwar, 4/2011 (monographic work on the Muslim Brotherhood), pp. 23- 32.

 

                                                                   Attendance of national and international conferences

  1. Environmental Anomalies and Political Legitimacy in Global Eurasia, 10-11th November 2025, Università di Napoli l’Orientale, Draft: “The Fall of a Capital, the ending of an Empire (1258/656); the Mongols, their Conquests and the their Environmental “narratives” related to Baghdad’s conquests.”

  2. Dissent, Power and Christian identity after Nicaea, 17-20 September 2025, Thessaloniki (GR) 16th International Conference of Ecclesiological Investigations, Keynote Speaker, Marco Demichelis: Divine World and Spirit in a Human Body?

  3. Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives, 14-15th January 2025, Alma Mater University of Bologna, Draft: “The River Nile and who holds power over its waters; a study on the Islamic sources.”

  4. Emerging Historical Perspectives in Christian-Muslim Interaction in and around the Mediterranean (c. 630-1614), Digital Conference, 25, 31 October, 8 November 2024, Draft: “Hic est status modernus”. The Ottoman Sultanate and the played influence on the Italian and French Political Thought in the “Cinquecento”.

  5. Labor in the Late Antiquity and Early Islamic Near East (ca. 300-900 CE), Chicago University Center in Paris, 27-28th May 2022. Draft: The “Mestiere delle Armi”. Steel, trade and anonymity in the Early Islamic Age (7-10th centuries).

  6. Joining the Dots: Interdisciplinarity in Middle East Studies, University of Leeds, 24th-26th June 2019, Brismes Conference 2019. Paper: The Khatim an-Nabiyyin (The Seal of Prophets) and its inclusive- Abrahamic perspective. Muhammad and ‘Isa ibn Maryam in dialogue.

  7. European Academy of Religion Annual Conference 2019, Bologna, 3th March-7th March 2019, Conference Paper: The Amateurish Feigned Indifference of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in Italy. Opportunities and Hypocrisies.

  8. 14th SeSaMO Conference, Path of Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa, University of Turin, 31th January-2th February 2019. Conference Paper: Jihadism au rebours: the Supremacist Narrative and Islamic Contemporary Thought for a Counter-Egemonic Discourse.

  9. Esa Rn 34 Midterm Conference, Sociology of Religion. Religions and Identities in the European Migration Crisis, University of Turin 29th August to 1th September 2018. Conference Paper: "Brain Drain and Diaspora" in contemporary Middle East. The Arab-Islamic thought and the European "drawing power" in dialogue.

  10. Wocmes Congress 2018, University of Sevilla, 16-20 July 2018. Panel’s Chair. Panel’s Title: The inter- religious in the contemporary Middle East; for a new Theology of Liberation. Conference Paper: “World’s Fasād and the Arab inability to fight it. A Sunnite praise against autocracy.”

  11. Islam and Belonging, Second Pluriel Conference, Gregoriana University in Rome, 26-28 June 2018. Conference Paper: “When Religion divides the community. Dynamics of violence and pacification in the Arab-Ottoman Levant”.

  12. Movement and Migration in the Middle East: people and ideas in flux, Brismes Conference, 5-7 of July 2017, Imes, University of Edinburgh, Conference paper: “Syria’s Lebanonization: A Historical excursus within the non-existence of Syrian National Identity”

  13. Islam in Plural. Thought, faith and society. First Pluriel Conference. A university research Platform on Islam, Université Catholique de Lyon, 6-9 September 2016, Conference paper: “The Dynamic of Islamic Radicalization in Europe and their prevention: a humanistic approach.”

  14. How do we see each other? The Abrahamic Religions and Interreligious relations in the past and present, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, 10-11 March 2016, Conference paper: “The Other in the Qur’ān. The Khātim an-Nabiyyīn (The Seal of Prophecy) and its inclusive-exclusive proclivity”.

  15. Islamisation: Comparative perspectives from History, St. Andrews University, 20-21 March 2015, Conference paper: “Habashah Vs. Argobba on the “Acrocoro”. The historicized Islamisation process of the Horn of Africa.”

  16. Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian studies, 38th Conference on The Modern Arab Renaissance, University of Oxford, 15-17 July 2013, conference paper: “Kalām viewpoints in F. Anṭūn vs. M. ‘Abduh’s debate on Secularization. God’s absolutism and Islām irrationality as cornerstones of the Orientalist Arab- Christian thought during the Nahḍa.”

  17. 9th International Christian-Arabic Conference, 19-21 July 2012, University of Malta (Valletta), conference paper: The Apocatastasis will save us all. The transition for a shared ethical approach from Christian Patristic to Early Islamic theology and philosophy.

  18. The Week of Politics. Agorà. Turin, 21-25 May, 2012, University of Turin, Department of Political Studies. Marco Demichelis, Damascus’ Spring and the deflagration of the Syrian society.

  19. Beyond the Veil: Islam visionary and apocalyptic, Gorizia, May 17-20, 2012, èStoria: International Festival of History.

  20. Islam and Democracy, Western Ontario University, London, 23-25 March 2012, conference paper: Kharijites and Qarmatians; the Islamic pre- democratic thought. A political- theological analysis.

  21. 18th DAVO Congress, 6-8 October 2011 in Free University of Berlin. Panel: Reason and Islam, a difficult relationship. Analysis of rational thought within some contemporary authours. Paper: “The reason of theodicy in Islām as emancipation from cultural, economic and political ‘slavery’. A twin-track investigation leading from Farid Esack and Hamid Dabashi’s reflection on Islamic liberation theology.”

  22. 10th SeSaMO conference, Uniformed memories. Peoples, States and Nations in the Mediterranean and Middle East, Milan, 9-11 June 2011, conference paper: The Ethiopian studies in Italy, between afro- Orientalism and colonialism.

  23. Il Marocco tra trono e moschea, Torino, 25 February 2011, Centro Federico Peirone – Provincia di Torino.

  24. 8th Nordic Conference of Middle Eastern Studies, 24-26 September 2010, Bergen (Norway), conference paper: Reason in Islam as Manifesto of Critical Exegesis.

  25. WOCMES 2010, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, 19-24 July 2010, Barcelona, conference paper: The Mihna. Deconstruction and reconsideration of the Mu‘tazilite role in the Inquisition.

  26. 16th DAVO Kongress, 8- 10 October 2009, Bonn Universitat, conference paper: New- Mu’tazilite theology in the contemporary age. The Relationship between Reason, History and Tradition.

  27. Reunion Group Conference on Mu‘tazilism in Islam and Judaism, 12-13 July 2009, The Institute for advanced studies, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, conference paper Al-Ma’mun caliphate, between Mu‘tazilism and Syncretism, under evaluation by the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

  28. Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), 8-9 May 2009, University of Chicago, conference paper: Al-Ma’mun and the Mu‘tazila: Analysis of the Religious and Political relationships based on the last recovered sources.

  29. 9th SeSaMO conference (Italian Institute for Middle East Studies), The past and the present of violence in Middle East: reality and representation, University of Turin, 16-18 October 2008.

  30. National Conference: Freedom and Democracy in the History of Political Thought, 12-13 June 2008, University of Parma.

  31. International Conference: The Town: a Cross-Road for travellers in the Mediterranean Area, University of Palermo, 31 October 2007 – 3 November 2007.

 

                                     Attendance and Organization of National and International conferences

 

    • Attendance and Organization of: The Narrative of Islamic Violence in History: Creation, Artifice and Reality, ICS, University of Navarra 14th -15th December 2018. Conference Paper: Jihadism au rebours: the Supremacist Narrative and Islamic Contemporary Thought for a Counter-Egemonic Discourse.

    • Attendance and Organization of: International Workshop, Narratives of Islam-Christian and gender violence in contemporary age. A plural perspective, ICS, Institute of Culture and Society, University of Navarra, 6th October 2017. Conference Paper: Deconstruction of Islamic Supremacism within a Historical-Christian Perspecive.

    • Attendance and Organization of: 11th SeSaMO Conference, Doing Citizenship. Practises of exclusions, demands of inclusions and new subjectivities in the Middle East and Europe, 17-19 September 2013, University of Pavia. Conference paper: “Citizenship and equity between Islamic Pluralism and Religious exclusivism. An excursus within the Nahḍa, from Sayyīd Aḥmad Khan (1817- 1898) to Maḥmoud M. Ṭaha (1909-1985).”Attendance and Organization of: Le vie del Sapere nell’area siro- mesopotamica dal III al IX secolo, Roma, 12-13 May 2011, PIO, Pontificio Istituto Orientale- Roma Tre, Conference paper: Basra, the cradle of Islamic culture. A reasoned analysis of the urban area that was the early home of Islamic Studies.

Academic Seminars

 

  1. Seminar entitled: “Paolo Giovio and the Ottoman-Islamic Otherness in the Italian Cinquecento”, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for the Italian Renaissance Studies, 2th of March 2023.

  2. Seminar entitled: La Escatología en el Islam, Faculty of Theology, University of Navarra, 18th of October 2018.

  3. Seminar entitled: Supremacist narrative in Islamic contemporary thought: a Counter Hegemonic discourse? Sadler Seminars Series Revisited, University of Leeds, 27th of September 2018.

  4. Seminar entitled: La Violence dans le Coran et sa comprehension Historique. Qital, Jihad and Ghazwa dans une analise critique, Université Catholique de Lyon, 9th March 2018.

  5. Seminar entitled: Salut et Enfer dans la Pensée Islamique classique: Allah peut-il nous sauver tous?, Institut Catholique de Paris, 9th February 2018.

  6. Seminar, entitled: In God’s Path. Dinamiche inter-religiose della conquista Araba (VII-VIII sec.) agli albori dell’Islam, University of Turin, Dip. di Culture, Politica e Società, 7th December 2017.

  7. Seminar, entitled: Warfare and Jihad in the first century of Islam. An inter-religious historical understanding, Otto-Friedrich-Universitat, Bamberg, Institute for Inter-Religious Studies, 4th December 2017.

  8. Seminar, entitled: Historical peculiarities, achievements and failures of Italian Orientalism. A debated itinerary from Michele Amari (b. 1806) to Francesco Gabrieli (d. 1996), 09/10/2014, Yale University, Colloquium of the Council of Middle Eastern Studies.

 

                                                                   Formative Courses of Research Management Project

 

    • [2-3 of May 2016] University of Navarra, MSCA (IF and Global) training course.

    • [25 of October 2019] University of Navarra, ERC (Starter, Consolidator, Advanced) training course

    • [16 of November 2019] University of Navarra, Erasmus + Training course.

    • [19 of December 2023] University of Bologna, ERC (Advanced grant) training course

 

                                                                                                        Foreign Languages proficiency

 

  1. Italian: Mother tongue

  2. Latin: Advanced Level (comprehension/translation)

  3. Greek: Advanced Level (comprehension/translation)

  4. English: Fluent (written, spoken, comprehension, C2)

    • Exam of English Language at University of Turin (30/30)

  1. French: Advanced level/Fluent (written, spoken, comprehension, C1)

    • Exam of French Language at University of Turin (28/30)

  1. Arabic: Advanced level (written, spoken, comprehension, B2)

    • Seminar in Moroccan dialect, University of Turin, faculty of Foreign Language with Prof. Moktary of the University of Rabat, (2002-2003)

    • Arabic I, II, Foreign Language Faculty, University of Turin, 2002/03 with Prof. Claudia Tresso

  1. German: Elementary-Intermediate (written, spoken, comprehension, level A2/B1)

  • Academic course at the UNITRE (30 hours, 2014-2015).

  • Academic course at the UNITRE (30 hours, 2015-2016).

  • Academic course at the UNITRE (30 hours, 2016-2017).

  1. Spanish: Intermediate (written, spoken, comprehension, C1)

 

Not -Academic working experiences

 

  • (January 2017-April 2017), Project Coordinator, Tra.Me, Carignano (To), Italy: Cultural and Social Association; Altra Meta project with refugees and asylum seeker. Competences in project coordination and social training, local team supervision and skillfulness.

 

  • (October 2005 – September 2006), Deputy Administrator and Project Coordinator, CCM (Comitato Collaborazione Medica), Italian Ngo, Addis Ababa Headquarters, Ogaden and Bale regions. Competences in administration and projects coordination (I mastered Excel and SPSS programs).

 

  • (August 2004 – July 2005), Participant Support Officer, Intercultura (AFS, American Field Service Italian branch). Competences in administration and projects coordination.

 

References and Academic association

 

    • Academic association’s membership: Davo (German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation, 2009-2015), SeSaMO (Italian Association of Middle Eastern Studies, 2008- 2015, Secretary of SeSaMO from the of 10th September 2012 until the 31th of December 2013), Nordic Society of Middle Eastern Studies (2009-2010), Aram (Association for Syrian Mesopotamian Studies, University of Oxford 2011-2012), BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, since 2017- 2022); Member of the Scientific Committee of IMESI (Institute of(Institute of Mediterranean and International Studies), University of Palermo.

 

    • Prof. Emeritus Fred Donner, Prof. Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, University of Chicago ( [mailto:f-donner@uchicago.edu] [mailto:f-donner@uchicago.edu] )

    • Prof. Emeritus Claude Gilliot, Aix-Marseille University ( [mailto:claude.gilliot@univ.amu.fr] )

    • Prof. Montserrat Herrero, Principal Investigator Religion and Society Project, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra ( [mailto:mherrero@unav.es] ).

    • Prof. Paolo Branca, Associate Prof. and Supervisor during my permanence at the Catholic University of Milan (paolo.branca@unicatt.it)

 

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