Valentina A Grasso
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 708164 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Valentina A Grasso |
| NOMBRES | Valentina A |
| APELLIDO | Grasso |
| FIRMA | GRASSO V A |
| AFILIACIONES | Bard College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4497-0063 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Holy Women, Tortured Bodies, and Imperial Politics at the Margins of Late Antiquity
From the third century CE onwards, Afro-Eurasian rulers enacted policies promoting systems of beliefs centered on a supreme entity to provide their subjects with a communal identity and to consolidate their dominions. This paper examines the relationship between Late Antiquity’s changing religious landscape and the construction of womanhood in three martyrdom narratives unsettling Eurocentric teleologies while foregrounding the politicization of …
When the “Other” Shares Your Faith
“No doctrine is comparable in any other country, and no heresy nor belief in any other religion.” According to Ibn Ḥawqal (d. after 978), an Arab geographer raised in Iraq, the inhabitants of tenth-century Sicily are among the most vain, most ignorant, and most xenophobic people on earth. This article explores the articulation of otherness in the Kitāb ṣūrat al-arḍ, a text Ibn Ḥawqal wrote after his sojourn on the island in 973, which is here inc…
Seals from Ancient South Arabia
There exists widespread evidence that the Near Eastern societies manufactured seals. However, among these, South Arabian seals remain largely neglected while performing various particularly revealing functions. For instance, the practice of sealing allowed for the explicit expression of ownership as well as the act of witnessing in legal matters. More broadly, seals were a means of articulating individual identities and reinforcing communal belon…
Slavery in First Millennium Arabia
It is commonly assumed that slavery was a widespread practice in pre-Islamic Arabia. This assumption is based on references to enslaved people in the Qurʾān. At the same time, it replicates biased accounts of the region’s inhabitants found in (mostly Graeco-Roman) “external” sources. Finally, the claim builds on the existence of “societies with slaves”' and “slave societies” in the surroundings of late antique Arabia. No thorough attempt to exami…
Introduction. Epigraphy, the Qurʾān, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia
A wide range of archaeological finds is rapidly expanding our knowledge of the pre-Islamic cultural milieu and the political structures of the Arabian Peninsula during Late Antiquity, and thereby of the Qurʾān’s cultural context. This material can offer a complementary reading to the literary accounts on pre-Islamic Arabia, which were mostly composed outside of Arabia or long after the late antique period. There is a growing need to make the rece…
The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context
The ancient Kingdom of Aksūm, located in Ethiopia and Eritrea, was one of the most influential civilizations of the first millennium ce. More than a dozen Aksūmite structures attest to the spread of Christianity from the fourth to the seventh centuries ce. Among these structures, a basilica recently discovered at the site of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in northern Ethiopia first constructed during the fourth century ce constitutes one of the earliest examples …
The Qu’rān through the Lens of Late Antiquity, Late Antiquity through the Lens of the Qu’rān
Le Coran des historiens brings together twenty-eight scholars to investigate the history of the Qur'n. The work complements Le Dictionnaire du Coran (2007), which Amir
Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. By Sean William Anthony. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 287. $32.95, £26
Making of the Medieval Middle East
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers. By Jack Tannous. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 647. $39.95, £34
Islam and Its Past
Islam and Its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qurʾan. Edited by Carol Bakhos and Michael Cook. Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions. Oxford: oxford University Press, 2017 . Pp. ix + 267. $85, £65
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Making of the Medieval Middle East
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers. By Jack Tannous. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 647. $39.95, £34
Islam and Its Past
Islam and Its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qurʾan. Edited by Carol Bakhos and Michael Cook. Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions. Oxford: oxford University Press, 2017 . Pp. ix + 267. $85, £65
The Qu’rān through the Lens of Late Antiquity, Late Antiquity through the Lens of the Qu’rān
Le Coran des historiens brings together twenty-eight scholars to investigate the history of the Qur'n. The work complements Le Dictionnaire du Coran (2007), which Amir
Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. By Sean William Anthony. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 287. $32.95, £26
Slavery in First Millennium Arabia
It is commonly assumed that slavery was a widespread practice in pre-Islamic Arabia. This assumption is based on references to enslaved people in the Qurʾān. At the same time, it replicates biased accounts of the region’s inhabitants found in (mostly Graeco-Roman) “external” sources. Finally, the claim builds on the existence of “societies with slaves”' and “slave societies” in the surroundings of late antique Arabia. No thorough attempt to exami…
Introduction. Epigraphy, the Qurʾān, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia
A wide range of archaeological finds is rapidly expanding our knowledge of the pre-Islamic cultural milieu and the political structures of the Arabian Peninsula during Late Antiquity, and thereby of the Qurʾān’s cultural context. This material can offer a complementary reading to the literary accounts on pre-Islamic Arabia, which were mostly composed outside of Arabia or long after the late antique period. There is a growing need to make the rece…
The Basilica of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in its Aksūmite, Early Christian, and Late Antique Context
The ancient Kingdom of Aksūm, located in Ethiopia and Eritrea, was one of the most influential civilizations of the first millennium ce. More than a dozen Aksūmite structures attest to the spread of Christianity from the fourth to the seventh centuries ce. Among these structures, a basilica recently discovered at the site of Betä Sämaʿtiʾ in northern Ethiopia first constructed during the fourth century ce constitutes one of the earliest examples …
Seals from Ancient South Arabia
There exists widespread evidence that the Near Eastern societies manufactured seals. However, among these, South Arabian seals remain largely neglected while performing various particularly revealing functions. For instance, the practice of sealing allowed for the explicit expression of ownership as well as the act of witnessing in legal matters. More broadly, seals were a means of articulating individual identities and reinforcing communal belon…
Holy Women, Tortured Bodies, and Imperial Politics at the Margins of Late Antiquity
From the third century CE onwards, Afro-Eurasian rulers enacted policies promoting systems of beliefs centered on a supreme entity to provide their subjects with a communal identity and to consolidate their dominions. This paper examines the relationship between Late Antiquity’s changing religious landscape and the construction of womanhood in three martyrdom narratives unsettling Eurocentric teleologies while foregrounding the politicization of …
When the “Other” Shares Your Faith
“No doctrine is comparable in any other country, and no heresy nor belief in any other religion.” According to Ibn Ḥawqal (d. after 978), an Arab geographer raised in Iraq, the inhabitants of tenth-century Sicily are among the most vain, most ignorant, and most xenophobic people on earth. This article explores the articulation of otherness in the Kitāb ṣūrat al-arḍ, a text Ibn Ḥawqal wrote after his sojourn on the island in 973, which is here inc…
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