Category:Early Islamic Studies--Italian

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Early Islamic Studies in Italian / Italian Scholarship on Early Islam

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Overview

The Italian School continued its work after the war with a new translation of the Qur'an by Alessandro Bausani in 1955. Great international acclaim gained in the 1960s the work of Francesco Gabrieli, which was translated into Spanish, English and German.

In the 1970s and 1980s the leading figure in the field was Sergio Noja. Two new translation of the Qur'an appeared, one by Federico Peirone in 1979 and one by Cherubino Mario Guzzetti in 1989.

In the 1990s and 2000s the growing Muslim presence in Italy has caused the emergence of an Italian Muslim Scholarship. In 1994 Hamza Roberto Blasone published the first Italian translation of the Qur'an authored by an Italian Muslim scholar. The work is still the "official" translation used by the majority of Muslims in Italy. Best known among Italian Muslim authors was Gabriele Mandel, whose work was widely translated in English, French, German, Spanish and other European languages. The tradition of Italian non-Muslim Arabists has been continued by Claudio Lo Jacono, Roberto Tottoli, Paolo Branca and Massimo Campanini. The growing public interest in the history, culture, and religion of Islam is testified in recent years by the increasing number of publications and translations of scholarly and fictional works in the field.