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9 November 2018 Godefroid de Callataÿ presents a paper on ‘The Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ and Aristotle’s biology: borrowings and adaptation’ in Leiden, as part of ‘Observing and interpreting Nature: Aristotle’s biology in the Arabic and Latin tradition’, a symposium organized by Remke Kruk and LUCIS...

29 November 2018 Michele Petrone ASA (African Studies Association) - Panel: Teaching pre-1800 African History. Local African historiography has already emerged as a field of research also in Islamic Studies. This passage is, anyway, far from being without culprits, mainly when it...

18 November 2018 Michele Petrone analyzed in this paper the reception of a motive of Classical Arabic poetry (aṭlāl) in Ethiopian Islamic devotional literature. It is based on manuscript materials that are analyzed in the context of local production and performance of poetry. The motive of...

11-19 October 2018 In the framework of the course “Storia delle Civiltà Mediterranee nel Medioevo” Michele Petrone gave five seminars on the naissance, expansion and fall of Islamic domain in Southern Italy, with a specific focus on Sicily and the Emirate of Bari (Apulia). Presentations (in...