Pluriel

University platform for research on Islam

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Antonio Cuciniello

Antonio Cuciniello is a Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Catholic University of Milan since 2020. He has also been the contact person for the Arab-Islamic world at the ISMU Foundation since 2005, where he works on education and counseling within the Arab-informa service.

Holding a PhD in Religious Studies with a specialization in Islam (Catholic University of Milan, 2016), he obtained a Licentiate in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome (2002) and a Master’s degree in Comparative Studies (Arabic and English – Language and Literature) from the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples (2000).

His research primarily focuses on the Qur’an, prophetic traditions, interreligious dialogue, and Islam in the Italian educational context. He taught English in Italian schools (2007-2019) and Italian at the Salesian Institute “Don Bosco” in Cairo (2003-2005).

Antonio Cuciniello is a member of several academic associations, including the International Qur’anic Studies Association and the Qur’anic Linguistics Research Group. He regularly participates in international conferences on Islam and interreligious dialogue.

Among his recent publications are articles on prophetic figures in the Qur’an, the perception of Islam in Italian textbooks, and Islamic-Christian dialogue in the Italian educational context. He has also contributed to collective works on Islam in Europe and Islamic finance.

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Italy

For a preventive Islamic de-radicalization. The Re-Configuration of the Humanities within an inter-religious approach. (Milan)

Research group held by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan.
The return to the humanities is not only necessary, but crucial for the promotion of a de-radicalising approach to both societies: the Islamic world and Europe. This research project intends to work not only in relation to the Islamic world or the Old Continent, but to both at the same time.
The aim is to create a project of preventive de-radicalisation of Muslim citizens and society, working on a double methodological and interdisciplinary axis: the teaching of Islam, its history, its religious tradition, its sociology, etc. in parallel with the religious, cultural and historical approach of the European world and the West.

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Italy

Dynamics of Islamic radicalization in Europe: prevention and educational policies (Closed)

Since the “Arab Springs” breakout in 2011, Islamist radicalization in Europe progressively grew as ISIS spread violence and chaos in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The so-called “Islamic State” brought a new vision of radical Islam which tears down all ethnic, national, cultural and linguistic barriers in order to promote a totalitarian view of religion that does not tolerate any type of distinction. No difference is made, at least in theory, even between converts and Muslim-born volunteers.

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