Caterina Bori
Biographic Data
| ID | 715495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caterina Bori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caterina |
| FAMILY NAME | Bori |
| SIGNATURE | BORI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7098-8582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Taymiyyan Diplomacy, or ‘What Brings One Close to God’
This article challenges the conventional reading of Ibn Taymiyya’s Al-Risāla al-qubrus. iyya as an apologetic work. This interpretation marginalizes the letter’s purpose and overlooks its structural coherence. By re-examining the text in light of its historical context and rhetorical strategy, the article argues that the letter should be understood as a ‘diplomatic-like’ appeal – a carefully crafted request aimed at persuading its recipient to re…
An Interview with Konrad Hirschler
Konrad Hirschler is a historian of manuscript cultures with a focus on Arabic North Africa and West Asia in the pre-print era. He combines social and cultural history to study what meanings different social strata and milieux ascribed to written artefacts and for what purposes they employed such artefacts. His work has focused in particular on reconstructing vanished libraries. This has led to a strong interest in the question of artefacts’ traje…
Sira Culture, Hadith and the Veneration of Muḥammad in the Later Middle Period
The article investigates the social and cultural practices of Sira production and consumption in the later Middle Period. It probes into the place held by Sira regarding the veneration of the Prophet, especially in relation to Hadith. Its first part shows that in the Middle Period Sira was intended as a vast literary repository characterized by fluidity of format, diverse social fruition, and plurality of practices in transmission and consumption…
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi
Konrad Hirschler. A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture
L'articolo presenta, commenta e discute criticamente e a fondo la ricerca condotta da Konrad Hirschler \nintorno al 'catalogo/elenco' dei propri libri effettuato Yūsuf Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī \n(840–909/1437–1503), studioso Ḥanbalita non particolarmente noto, residente nel quartiere di al-Ṣāliḥiyya e appassionato raccoglitore e catalogatore di libri. \nL'articolo posiziona la ricerca di Hirschler nel più vasto campo della ricerca sulla storia del libro …
Anthropomorphism in Islam
Finally, we have a book that diachronically explores how anthropomorphic descriptions of God were articulated,receivedandusedinpre-modernMuslimsocieties (up to 1350).This is done thoroughly by Livnat Holtzman by studyingthe so called aḥādīth al-ṣifāt through the prism of different approaches. The book consists of five chapters and a number of useful appendixes with translations of relevant texts and charts of transmission chains. The book does no…
Ibn Taymiyya (14 th to 17 th Century)
On Taqlīd
On Taqlīd : Ibn al Qayyim ́s Critique of Authority in Islamic Law, by Abdul-Rahman Mustafa (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), vii + 242 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-993751-6, $78.00 (hb) (First paragraph) This book presents the translation of the section on taqlīd of Iʿlām al-muwaqqiʿīn ʿan Rabb al-ʿālamīn by the Ḥanbalī damascene scholar, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350). Iʿlām al-muwaqqiʿīn is a long treatise about the methodology o…
Muḥammad and the Supernatural
Review of Rebecca Williams, Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views. The book examines reports of episodes in the life of Muhammad in which the supernatural plays some part, chosen from the Prophetic biographies (sīra) and qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr) \nof the tenth-century historian and exegete al-Ṭabarī (d. 923) and the much later Ibn Kathīr (d. 1373)
A Scholar in the Shadow
Nella prima parte il saggio introduttivo illustra la figura di Ibn al-Qayyim (m. 1351) e la sua importanza; discute le sue fonti biografiche suggerendo nuove traiettorie di ricerca e propone delle strategie di analisi che permettano di uscire dal paradigma dominante della dipendenza (quindi mancaza di originalità) di Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya dal suo maestro Ibn Taymiyya (m. 1328) . Nella seconda parte il capitolo descrive i contributi del volume in…
Théologie politique et Islam à propos d'Ibn Taymiyya (m. 728/1328) et du sultanat mamelouk
Théocratie, dualisme et représentation sont les trois modèles de base que Jacob Taubes a utilisés pour tenter de singulariser et de déterminer historiquement le rapport complexe et fascinant qui existe entre la théologie et le politique. Cette tripartition conceptuelle a été reprise et élaborée par l’égyptologue Jan Assman, qui a orienté le débat sur la théologie politique vers un cadre historico-religieux plus ample.Pour aller encore plus loin d…
A new source for the biography of Ibn Taymiyya
The student who approaches the study of the turbulent life of Ibn Taymiyya will soon realize that Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī, his renowned shāfi'ī disciple, is indeed one of the main sources for the Hanbalī scholar's biographers. Al-Dhahabī wrote many biographical notices of Ibn Taymiyya and one of these has been identified with the manuscript source presented in this article. The article briefly introduces the source, discusses its content and its …
Ibn Taymiyya (14 th to 17 th Century)
A Scholar in the Shadow
Nella prima parte il saggio introduttivo illustra la figura di Ibn al-Qayyim (m. 1351) e la sua importanza; discute le sue fonti biografiche suggerendo nuove traiettorie di ricerca e propone delle strategie di analisi che permettano di uscire dal paradigma dominante della dipendenza (quindi mancaza di originalità) di Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya dal suo maestro Ibn Taymiyya (m. 1328) . Nella seconda parte il capitolo descrive i contributi del volume in…
Théologie politique et Islam à propos d'Ibn Taymiyya (m. 728/1328) et du sultanat mamelouk
Théocratie, dualisme et représentation sont les trois modèles de base que Jacob Taubes a utilisés pour tenter de singulariser et de déterminer historiquement le rapport complexe et fascinant qui existe entre la théologie et le politique. Cette tripartition conceptuelle a été reprise et élaborée par l’égyptologue Jan Assman, qui a orienté le débat sur la théologie politique vers un cadre historico-religieux plus ample.Pour aller encore plus loin d…
A new source for the biography of Ibn Taymiyya
The student who approaches the study of the turbulent life of Ibn Taymiyya will soon realize that Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī, his renowned shāfi'ī disciple, is indeed one of the main sources for the Hanbalī scholar's biographers. Al-Dhahabī wrote many biographical notices of Ibn Taymiyya and one of these has been identified with the manuscript source presented in this article. The article briefly introduces the source, discusses its content and its …
A new source for the biography of Ibn Taymiyya
The student who approaches the study of the turbulent life of Ibn Taymiyya will soon realize that Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī, his renowned shāfi'ī disciple, is indeed one of the main sources for the Hanbalī scholar's biographers. Al-Dhahabī wrote many biographical notices of Ibn Taymiyya and one of these has been identified with the manuscript source presented in this article. The article briefly introduces the source, discusses its content and its …
Théologie politique et Islam à propos d'Ibn Taymiyya (m. 728/1328) et du sultanat mamelouk
Théocratie, dualisme et représentation sont les trois modèles de base que Jacob Taubes a utilisés pour tenter de singulariser et de déterminer historiquement le rapport complexe et fascinant qui existe entre la théologie et le politique. Cette tripartition conceptuelle a été reprise et élaborée par l’égyptologue Jan Assman, qui a orienté le débat sur la théologie politique vers un cadre historico-religieux plus ample.Pour aller encore plus loin d…
A Scholar in the Shadow
Nella prima parte il saggio introduttivo illustra la figura di Ibn al-Qayyim (m. 1351) e la sua importanza; discute le sue fonti biografiche suggerendo nuove traiettorie di ricerca e propone delle strategie di analisi che permettano di uscire dal paradigma dominante della dipendenza (quindi mancaza di originalità) di Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya dal suo maestro Ibn Taymiyya (m. 1328) . Nella seconda parte il capitolo descrive i contributi del volume in…
On Taqlīd
On Taqlīd : Ibn al Qayyim ́s Critique of Authority in Islamic Law, by Abdul-Rahman Mustafa (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), vii + 242 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-993751-6, $78.00 (hb) (First paragraph) This book presents the translation of the section on taqlīd of Iʿlām al-muwaqqiʿīn ʿan Rabb al-ʿālamīn by the Ḥanbalī damascene scholar, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350). Iʿlām al-muwaqqiʿīn is a long treatise about the methodology o…
Muḥammad and the Supernatural
Review of Rebecca Williams, Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views. The book examines reports of episodes in the life of Muhammad in which the supernatural plays some part, chosen from the Prophetic biographies (sīra) and qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr) \nof the tenth-century historian and exegete al-Ṭabarī (d. 923) and the much later Ibn Kathīr (d. 1373)
Ibn Taymiyya (14 th to 17 th Century)
Anthropomorphism in Islam
Finally, we have a book that diachronically explores how anthropomorphic descriptions of God were articulated,receivedandusedinpre-modernMuslimsocieties (up to 1350).This is done thoroughly by Livnat Holtzman by studyingthe so called aḥādīth al-ṣifāt through the prism of different approaches. The book consists of five chapters and a number of useful appendixes with translations of relevant texts and charts of transmission chains. The book does no…
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi
Konrad Hirschler. A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture
L'articolo presenta, commenta e discute criticamente e a fondo la ricerca condotta da Konrad Hirschler \nintorno al 'catalogo/elenco' dei propri libri effettuato Yūsuf Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī \n(840–909/1437–1503), studioso Ḥanbalita non particolarmente noto, residente nel quartiere di al-Ṣāliḥiyya e appassionato raccoglitore e catalogatore di libri. \nL'articolo posiziona la ricerca di Hirschler nel più vasto campo della ricerca sulla storia del libro …
An Interview with Konrad Hirschler
Konrad Hirschler is a historian of manuscript cultures with a focus on Arabic North Africa and West Asia in the pre-print era. He combines social and cultural history to study what meanings different social strata and milieux ascribed to written artefacts and for what purposes they employed such artefacts. His work has focused in particular on reconstructing vanished libraries. This has led to a strong interest in the question of artefacts’ traje…
Sira Culture, Hadith and the Veneration of Muḥammad in the Later Middle Period
The article investigates the social and cultural practices of Sira production and consumption in the later Middle Period. It probes into the place held by Sira regarding the veneration of the Prophet, especially in relation to Hadith. Its first part shows that in the Middle Period Sira was intended as a vast literary repository characterized by fluidity of format, diverse social fruition, and plurality of practices in transmission and consumption…
Taymiyyan Diplomacy, or ‘What Brings One Close to God’
This article challenges the conventional reading of Ibn Taymiyya’s Al-Risāla al-qubrus. iyya as an apologetic work. This interpretation marginalizes the letter’s purpose and overlooks its structural coherence. By re-examining the text in light of its historical context and rhetorical strategy, the article argues that the letter should be understood as a ‘diplomatic-like’ appeal – a carefully crafted request aimed at persuading its recipient to re…
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