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Marco Demichelis

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

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

Short Bio

Marco Demichelis (PhD) is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in History of Islamic World and Islamic Thought at the Alma Mater University of Bologna. He has been Berenson Fellow (2022-2023) at the I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for the Study of Italian Renaissance), Senior Research Fellow in Islamic Studies within the ICS at the University of Navarre (2019-2021) after having worked as Marie Curie Fellow (IF 2016) in the same and post-Doctoral Research Fellow within the Dept. of Religious Studies at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (2013-2016). Among his last monographs, Violence in Early Islam. Religious Narratives, the Arab Conquests and the Canonization of Jihad (IB Tauris, 2021) and Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought: Can Allah Save Us All? (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018); his last edited Special Issue is [https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/QH_HQ_FCCS] (mdpi.com).

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Contacts

E-mail:
marco.demichelis2@unibo.it

Other contacts

Web:

Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne
Via Cartoleria 5, Bologna - Go to map

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Office hours

Every Monday (from 9 February 2026), from 11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m., teachers' room, Via F. Re 8 (first floor).

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