Ricerc@Sapienza

Main research areas explored in the period 2020-2025, based on published articles and book chapters, papers presented in workshops and conferences, and ongoing research:

Islamic Studies;

Islam in sub-Saharan Africa;

Notions of Islamic Languages and Islamic Literatures;

Legacy of Alessandro Bausani (1921-1988) in Islamic Studies;

French as an “Islamic language”;

Bambara (Bamana / Bamanankan) as an “Islamic language”

Islamic literatures in sub-Saharan Africa;

Islam and Bambara oral literature from Mali;

The epic genre and Islam in West African literatures;

Sufi hagiographic literature in Bambara (Mali);

Islamic blessing formulas (request prayers) in Bambara (Mali);

Investigating silences in Islamic sources;

Representations of West African traditional religions in precolonial Islamic written sources;

Representations of “wondrous cities” in precolonial Arabic sources about sub-Saharan West Africa.