'Ishq - love in islamic context

The paper is an analysis of the development of courtly love culture in Medieval Islam, and of its conflicts with philosophy and jurisprudence

L'eredità classica greca e il medioevo islamo-ebraico di Leo Strauss

L'articolo intende fornire un contributo ad un campo di ricerche che da decenni impegna gli studi di settore, soprattutto negli Stati Uniti e in Israele: la ricostruzione delle relazioni culturali tra giudaismo e islam nel medioevo; una relazione mantenuta viva da ciò che gli storici hanno unanimemente definito "il contesto islamico del pensiero medievale ebraico.The paper aims at providing a contribution to a field of researches which, since decades (mostly in USA and Israel) is devotted to the reconstruction of the cultural relationship between Judaism and Islam during the Middle Ages: a relationship that was kept alive in what historians have unanimously defined the Islamic context of medieval Jewish thought

Maria Nallino (1908-1974) and the Birth of Arabic and Islamic studies at Ca’ Foscari

This essay, based on bibliographic and archival material, focuses on the academic figure Maria Nallino, a scholar whose voluminous body of work ranges from classicism to modernity with equal fluency and expertise. Daughter of the famous Orientalist Carlo Alfonso Nallino (1872-1938), whose work she gathered and actively promoted, her arrival at Ca’ Foscari (1962) inaugurated Arabic and Islamic studies in Venice

Before Archaeology. The Meaning of the Past in the Premodern Islamic Thought (and After)

The volume aims at exploring the multifaceted modalities with which classical and pre-modern Islamic thought has imagined and narrated the past, developing from different points of view – literary, historical, philological, political, religious, or at the level of collective imagination – an intellectual and interpretive attitude to the past, and articulating a complex discourse on antiquity, its memory and its persistence in the cultural and geographical spaces of the Muslim Near East

"Fonderei la mia fede alla fede dei Greci". Abu Nuwas e la poetica degli amori interreligiosi

Il contributo illustra le modalità con cui un grande poeta come Abu Nuwas dota la cultura letteraria araba medievale di un genere poetico dedicato alla descrizione dell'amato o dell'amata fondata sull'alterità religiosa, cristiana o zoroastriana

La prima crociata e la memoria storica araba

Il saggio analizza le ragioni della mancata reazione di difesa del mondo arabo, nel XII secolo, di fronte all'invasione crociata; in modo particolare, si mette in risalto la demilitarizzazione della società arabo-islamica in quel momento storico.The paper analyzes the reasons which caused the lack of reaction, during the XXIth century, by the Arab world before the Crusaders, with special reference to the demilitarization of arab-islamic society in that historical period