Rector of the Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica (PISAI), Roma.
- Adresse mail
- preside@pisai.it
- Université et pays de rattachement
- Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica (PISAI), Roma - Italia
- Fonction actuelle
- Rector
- Professore straordinario
- Islamochristiana – Editorial Board
- Titres académiques
- Ph.D. in Theological & Religious Studies (Georgetown University)
- Licentiate in Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI)
- Domaines d’enseignement
- Classical Islamic theology
- Muslim-Christian relations
- Arabic grammar
- Qur’an and Tafsir
- Domaine de recherche
- Muslim-Christian relations
- Interreligious polemics
- Thématique de recherche
- The intellectual history of Muslim-Christian relations and the continuing reciprocal theological constructions that this history has bequeathed to Christians and Muslims today.
- Publications / contributions
- [Co-authored with Marek Nasiłowski] “Medieval Muslim Polemics against the Christian Creed: The Critique of Ṣāliḥ b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ǧaʿfarī (d. 668/1270),” in Islamochristiana 42 (2016) 71-102.
- [Co-authored with Daniel A. Madigan] “Thinking Outside the Box: Developments in Catholic Understandings of Salvation,” in Diverse Religions On Religious Diversity, ed. Robert McKim (Leiden: Brill, 2016) 63-119. Series: Philosophy of Religion – World Religions, 6.
- Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean: The Splendid Replies of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (d. 684/1285), The History of Christian-Muslim Relations 23, Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- “Se battre pour la cause de Dieu : vice ou vertu ? Vues de Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (d. 1285)”, Islamochristiana 41 (2015) 95-107.
- “The Philosopher as the Heir of the Prophets: Averroes’s Islamic Rationalism”, Al-Qanṭara: Revista de Estudios Arabes 36, no. 1 (2015) 45-68.
- “Corresponding across Religious Borders: Al-Bājī’s Response to a Missionary Letter from France”, Medieval Encounters 18 (2012) 1-35.
- “Spiritual Anti-Elitism: Ibn Taymiyya’s Doctrine of Sainthood (walāya)”, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 22, no. 3 (2011)275-291.
- [Co-authored with Daniel A. Madigan] “Islam and Christianity”, in Oxford Bibliographies: Islamic Studies, ed. Tamara Sonn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0114.xml
- “Carta de Ibn Taymiyya a un cruzado en Chipre”, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 8 (2011) 109-164.
- “Corresponding across Religious Borders: Letter from Ibn Taymiyya to a Crusader in Cyprus”, Islamochristiana 36 (Roma: PISAI, 2010) 187-212.
- “La fetua de Ibn Taymiyya sobre los monjes”, Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos (Sección Árabe-Islam) 59 (2010) 171-190.
- “Jihād and the Islamic philosophers: Alfarabi as a case study”, Encounter: Documents for Muslim-Christian Understanding 354 (Rome: PISAI, May 2010).
- “Dans la Sunna le Prophète donne le bon exemple”, Oasis 9 (Venezia: Fondazione Internationale Oasis, 2009), 37-40.
- “Un irreductible choque de ortodoxias: Ibn Taymiyya y la controversia religiosa medieval en torno a la interpretación del Corán”, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 6 (2009) 287-337.
- “Iglesias en tierra de Islam: La Mas’alat al-kanā’is de Ibn Taymiyya”, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 5 (2008) 287-324.
- “Carta a un amigo musulmán de Sidón de Pablo de Antioquia”, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 4 (2007) 189-215.
- “The Tijâniyya – an infallible way of salvation”, Encounter: Documents for Muslim-Christian Understanding 316 (Roma: PISAI, 2005).
- “Muhammad b. Abd al Wahhāb y los origines del wahhabismo”, Encuentro Islamo-Cristiano 401 (Madrid: Darek-Nyumba, 2005).
- “¿Podemos rezar juntos? La práctica de la oración interreligiosa”, Encuentro Islamo-Cristiano 349 (Madrid: Darek-Nyumba, 2001).