Paolo La Spisa
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literature and Intercultural Studie
University of Firenze
Italy
Biography
Higher education 1992-2000: University of Florence (Italy), Faculty of Literature and Philosophy. Graduate studies, Major: Oriental Studies and Languages. MA thesis: "An example of Arab-Christian apology and erosion: two theological treatises in Sulaym? N al-azz? »(110/110 cum laude). 2002-2006: University of Florence (Italy), Faculty of Literature and Philosophy. Ph.D. studies in "Languages ​​and Cultures of the Mediterranean Area". Ph.D. thesis: Sulaym al-Ibn 'asan al- Palestinian Bishop of Gaza (X-XI century): for a new critical edition of some theological treatises . Supervisor: Lidia Bettini. Degree conferred on 30 May 2006. 2008-2010: Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium). Post-doctorate research as Marie Curie Fellow. Other education 2001-2002: Course of Arabic at the "Arabic Language Institute for non-Arabic speakers", Damascus (Damascus-Syria) 2003: Internship in Arabic language at IFPO (Institut Français du Proche Orient) Damascus (Syria) 2008: Course of German Language at the "University Service Deutsch für Studium" School of German as Foreign Language, Hamburg (Germany)
Research Interest
History of Christian-Muslim Relations (cultural influences, political and religious inter-actions) Middle Arabic of manuscript texts Hagiographical and Apocryphal Arabic Literature in the Middle Ages (both Christian and Muslim traditions) Cataloguing of Arabic manuscripts Philology as Textual Criticism of Pre-Modern Arabic Texts (Methodologies and Practices)
Publications
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La Spisa, P. (2016). An Arab rustle manuscript does not encore décrit: the Parisinus arabicus 6981. LE MUSEON, vol. 129, pp. 457-482, ISSN: 0771-6494
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Paul, La Spisa (2017). Elliesie, Hatem (Hg.): Multidisciplinary Views on the Horn of Africa. Festschrift in Honor of Rainer Voigt's 70th Birthday. ORIENTALISTISCHE LITERATURZEITUNG, vol. 112, pp. 281-283, ISSN: 2196-6877
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La Spisa, Paolo (2017). A Seventeenth-Century Multi-Text Manuscript from Aleppo: Linguistic Remarks and Historical Context. In: G. Mandala, I. Pérez MartÃn (edited by). Multilingual and Multigraphic Documents and Manuscripts of East and West, pp. 397-415, Piscataway: Gorgias Press, ISBN: 978-1-4632-0283-5.
