Studi arabistici in memoria di Anna Pagnini

Stefania Bertonati, a graduate in Oriental Languages and Literatures (Arabic) from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, has studied at the French Institute of Arabic Studies in Damascus (1989-90 and 1990-91). She teaches Arabic Language at the University of Pavia and University of Milan Bicocca. Her fields of interest include Arabic linguistic in historical perspective, pre-modern and modern Arabic literature, and TAFL. She is co-author of the textbook Lingua araba e società contemporanea (Bologna, Zanichelli, 2021).

Mirella Cassarino teaches Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania. Her interests are mainly focused on Adab and its structuring forms, the relations between Oriental and Romance literatures in the medieval Eurasian area, as well as linguistic variation and Arabic literary production in Islamic and Norman Sicily.

Among her publications: “Arabic Epistolography in Sicily: The Case of Ibn al-Ṣabbāġ al-Ṣiqillī”, in M. Cassarino (Ed.), Islamic Sicily: Philological and Literary Essays, Quaderni di Studi Arabi, n.s. 10, 2015, pp. 123-137; Le Notti di Tawḥīdī. Variazioni sull’adab (2017); M. Cassarino and A. Ghersetti, “Which differences? Notes for a Project on Sicilian and Andalusian Grammarians”, in Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 17, 2018, 67–78. (https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.6105).

Roberto Tottoli - MA in Oriental Languages and Literature from Venice Ca’ Foscari (1988), PhD from Naples L’Orientale (1996) - studied in Cairo, American University and Jerusalem, Hebrew University, under the direction of M.J. Kister (1993-94), then taught in Turin (1999-2002) and Naples L’Orientale since 2002, where he has been Full Professor of Islamic Studies since 2011. He has done research on biblical prophets in Islam, worked on Islamic literature in general and, more recently, on editions and translations of the Qur’an in the modern age. He is the principal Investigator of the “ERC Synergy project EUQU- The European Qur'an" and Rector of the University of Naples L’Orientale since 2020. He is also fellow of Accademia nazionale dei Lincei since 2019.