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.
Resources of this researcher
-
article
The Genre of the Mawlid Narrative in the mid-12th h./18th Century as Exemplified by al-Barzanjī
- Antonio Cuciniello
Among the works of Arabic literature concerning the genre of Mawlid, certainly al-Barzanjī’s Mawlid is a text that has achieved great popularity and spread to large parts of the Islamic world. Inde...
-
article
The Abu Dhabi Document: A Potential Cornerstone for Islamic-Christian Dialogue in Italian Educational Contexts
- Antonio Cuciniello
In Italy, the migratory phenomenon has also had an impact on the school system, becoming an interesting potential field for intercultural and inter-religious encounters. As regards, for instance, t...
-
article
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti and the Second Coming of Jesus in Islam
- Antonio Cuciniello
“This article first provides an overall picture of Jesus in the Qur’anic Text, amongst the stories of the other prophets, his prophetic role during the mission God gave him on earth and at th...
-
article
Jalāl Al-Dīn Al-Suyūṭī: An Historical Contextualization Between Life and Works
- Antonio Cuciniello
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyuṭī (1445-1505), as a religious scholar of the Egyptian Mamluk era, one of the most prominent scholars of the pre-modern Islamic world, is the most prolific author in all of ...
-
publication
Religious Traditions in the Face of the Crisis of the Liberal System: The Case of Islam
- Paolo Branca
- Antonio Cuciniello
Proceedings of the conference organised by the Cathoilic University of Milan on October 9th, 2019. Abstract : Religions have regained a considerable role in the public space, to an extent that was...
-
publication
For a human fraternity – Christians and Muslims united in diversity
- Antonio Cuciniello
- Paolo Branca
Beginning with the Document on Human Brotherhood, signed in Abu Dhabi by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyib on 5 February 2019, the volume re-reads this document in the lig...
-
publication
Muslim students at school
- Antonio Cuciniello
Original title: Studenti musulmani a scuola What questions do children and young people, especially the ‘second generation’, who profess the Islamic religion pose to Italian schools? Ho...
-
article
Disease, death and cure. Muslims and the health emergency
- Antonio Cuciniello
- Paolo Branca
Original title : Malattia, morte e cura. I musulmani e l’emergenza sanitaria The health emergency caused by Covid-19 has also had a strong impact on believers and religious communities of all relig...
-
article
Joseph in the Qur’ān, a prophetic narrative. Incidents and specific language
- Antonio Cuciniello
Abstract The object of the essay is prophecy in the Qur’ān, through the stories of the prophets and the language they use. Specifically, the Qur’ānic narrative and Joseph’s speeches have been syste...
-
publication
(Saint) Francis and the Muslims
- Antonio Cuciniello
On the occasion of the 800th anniversary (1219-2019) of the meeting between Francis of Assisi and the Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil, this volume aims to retrace both this visit and the relations of Pope...
Resources related to
Arabic Language
videos
The Foundations of Arabic Grammatical Theory
Cairo. In a lecture delivered in Arabic on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo, Professor Ramzi Baalbaki, holder of the Chair of Arabic...
videos
For a dialogical theological fraternity: a rereading of the Document on Human Fraternity in light of the earliest Arabic theological writings
- Romain Louge
From the 8th century onwards, the first theological writings were composed in Arabic, either in Christian communities or in Muslim communities. This communication aims, through the study of these e...
publication
MIDÉO No. 37: Recitation in the early centuries of Islam
- Emmanuel Pisani
The history of reciting the Quran has been rarely studied. This volume comprises most of the papers presented at the Third IDEO Conference held in Cairo in October 2020 on reciting in the early Isl...
videos
Otherness And Spatial Dimension In The Arabic Language And Culture
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
Etymologically, the noun âkhar from the verb âkhara, rather draws the action of postponing, أَخَّرَ العَمَلَ, or temporarily deprogramming an action. al-âkhar on some other hand does not establish ...
article
Mercy, a new opportunity for dialogue between Muslims and Christians
- Rafael Vázquez Jiménez
Original title : La Misericordia, nueva oportunidad para el diálogo entre musulmanes y cristianos Abstract The common concept of mercy needs a clarification in its meaning for Christians and ...
article
The Oromo and the historical process of Islamisation in Ethiopia
- Marco Demichelis
Abstract The historical interaction between Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa is profoundly connected with the region’s specifi c historical, linguistic and cultural characteristics. ...
article
Arab and islamic humour
- Paolo Branca
First lines of the introduction "The stereotype of the grim-faced Arab brandishing a scimitar is part of our collective imagination and is the result of centuries of struggle between the two sid...