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Maria Nallino (1908-1974) and the Birth of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ca’ Foscari

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Abstract

This essay, based on bibliographic and archival material, focuses on the academic figure Maria Nallino, a scholar whose voluminous body of work ranges from classicism to modernity with equal fluency and expertise. Daughter of the famous Orientalist Carlo Alfonso Nallino (1872-1938), whose work she gathered and actively promoted, her arrival at Ca’ Foscari (1962) inaugurated Arabic and Islamic Studies in Venice.


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Published Oct. 21, 2018 | Language: en

Keywords Ca’ Foscari • Islamic Studies • Nallino • Arabic language • Arabian Studies

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