Curriculum vitae

ANGELO IACOVELLA
Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum
Born in Rome, 1st February 1968. Residing in Rome, via dei Monti Lepini n. 27/c (ZIP
00139); e-mail address: [email protected]. Mobile phone 342.0367967.
Assistant Professor [Professore Aggregato] in Arabic Language and Literature (LOR/12) at the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation of Rome's Libera Università
UNINT, since 1st Oct 2008.
Academic background:
Obtained
Licentia
studiorumarabicorum
et
islamicorum
at
PISAI
(PontificioIstituto di Studi Arabi e di Islamistica), on 15th June 1992. Mark:
magna cum laude. Qualification recognized by the Italian State, art. 10, 2 of
Law no. 21 of 25th Mar 1985, published on Official Gazette no. 28 of 10th April
1985).
Obtained university degree in Political Science at Rome's «La Sapienza»
University, on 30th Mar 1993. Mark: 110/110 cum laude.
Languages spoken (and related certifications):
Arabic and French
Obtained three-year degree in Language and Culture of Arab countries in
summer session of AY 1991/92 at Rome's «Istituto di Studi sul Medio ed
EstremoOriente» (ISMEO).
Certificat d’arabe litteral released by Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle
(Institut d’Études Arabes et Islamiques: Paris III) on 26th Oct 1991.
English
Certificate of Pitman’s Examinations Institute (Advanced-First Class), released
in August's session, 1985.
Certificate of Padworth College (Advanced), released in August 1985.
Certificate of TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), released in March
1986.
Neo-Persian (fârsî)
Three-year degree in Persian Language and Culture, obtained in summer
session of AY 2005-6 at Rome's IsIAO institute.
Didactic background
1994-2006: teacher of “Language and Culture of Arab countries” in the threeyear courses of Oriental Languages and Cultures of Istituto Italiano per l’Africa
e l’Oriente (IsIAO, former IsMEO). 1999-2005: teacher of Arabic Language at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in courses activated by IsIAO in agreement with
“M. Toscano” Diplomatic Institute.
2002-2004: Instructor under contract in “History of Islamic countries” at the
Faculty of Political Sciences (Degree in Political Science and Social Service) of
Università degli Studi della Calabria (Cosenza and Crotone).
2003-2008: Instructor under contract in “Arabic Language and Literature” at
Faculty of Humanities of Naples' “L’Orientale” University.
2005: teacher of "Arabic Language and Culture” at the training course for
Arabic Language and Culture Operators, funded by the European Social Fund.
2006: teacher of Arabic Language and course coordinator at Rome's Chamber
of Commerce's (IRFI) two-years Business and Arabic course.
2005-6: Instructor under contract in “Arabic Language and Literature” at the
Faculty of Humanities of Rome's “La Sapienza” University.
2006-8: Instructor under contract in “Arabic Philology” and “History of Islamic
countries” at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures of Università
della Tuscia.
Since October 2008, researcher in Arabic Language and Literature (L-OR 12) at
the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation of Rome's LiberaUniversità LUSPIO
(former San Pio V), by Rector's Decree no. 496/08 of 23rd Sep 2008).
Publishing activities
Articles in journals
«Cenni sulla condizione etico-giuridica dei cristiani nel mondo musulmano.
Islâm e codificazione della “differenza”», in Il diritto ecclesiastico, nos. 3-4 (JulyDecember 1994), pg. 1045-1053.
«La presenza italiana in Egitto: problemi storici e demografici», in Altreitalie, no.
12 (July-December 1994), pg. 60-71.
«La Massoneria italiana in Turchia (1867-1923)», in Studi Emigrazione/Études
Migrations, XXXIII, n. 123 (September 1996), pg. 393-416.
«La Beatrice dell’Islam. “Eros” e “Sophia Perennis” in un brano
MuhyîddînIbn ‘Arabî», in Poeti e Poesia, VI, no. 2 (July 2000), pg. 59-62.
di
«Per una ricognizione delle fonti arabo-islamiche in materia di eventi sonori», in
Musica e storia, IX, no. 2 (December 2001), pg. 451-461.
«Nel cuore murato del Maghreb», in Ideazione, VIII, no. 3 (May-June 2001), pg.
179-186.
«Un manoscritto arabo anonimo sulle “Eccellenze dell’Egitto” (Kitāb Fadā’il
Misr). Nuovi elementi per una identificazione», in Africa. Rivista trimestrale di
studi e documentazione dell’Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, LXV, 1-4,
March-December 2010, pg. 391-416.
«Da Alessandro Magno a Maometto. La valigia delle Indie», in Storia in rete, VII,
n. 65, March 2011, pg. 58-65.
«Viaggi celesti e perlustrazioni oniriche nel sufismo medievale: il mi‘rāğ di Abū
Yazīd al-Bistāmī», in Vie della Tradizione, XLI, no. 157, January-April 2011, pg.
49-64.
«Sul concetto di “locuzione teopatica” (shath) nel sufismo medievale», in M. de
Pasquale and A. Iacovella (edited by), La “santa” affabulazione. I linguaggi della
mistica in Oriente e in Occidente, Trento, La Finestra.
«Un inedito di Guido de Giorgio sul sufismo e sulla metafisica orientale», in
Annali della Fondazione Ugo Spirito, XXII-XXIII (2010-2011).
Introductory essays
Introduction to: J. Evola, Oriente e Occidente, Rome 2001.
Introduction to: Farîd ad-Dîn ‘Attâr, La lingua degli uccelli, Rome 2002.
Contributions to miscellanies
Musica e psiche nel pensiero medievale islamico, in VV.AA., Atti del convegno
sul tema: Scienze tradizionali in Asia. Princìpi ed applicazioni (Perugia, 26-28
ottobre 1995), edited by L. Lanciotti and B. Melasecchi, Perugia 1996, pg. 6780.
René Guénon e l’Islam, in VV.AA., Islam e Occidente, edited by G. Igonetti,
Naples 2003, pg. 123-142.
Il mondo ottomano tra tradizione e modernità, in VV.AA., Un sogno che si fa
storia. La riunificazione dell'Europa, Rimini 2004.
Ayyarùn e Futuwwa, in VV.AA., Le vie spirituali dei briganti, edited by A.
Grossato, Milan 2006, pg. 107-116.
Socialità massonica e socialità operaia. Il caso di Costantinopoli, in VV.AA., Gli
Italiani di Istanbul, edited by A. de Gasperis e R. Ferrazza, Turin 2007, pg. 153174.
La Commedia tra Oriente e Occidente: suggestioni sul problema delle fonti
islamiche di Dante, in VV.AA., Sotto il velame. Dante fra universalità esoterica e
universalismo politico, edited by P. Vitellaro Zuccarello, Milan 2007, pg. 23-36.
Tra due colonne. René Guénon e la massoneria, in VV.AA. Esoterismo e religione
nel pensiero di René Guénon, Carmagnola 2009, pg. 71-78.
Books published in Italy
Muhyî al-Dîn Ibn ‘Arabî, L’epistola dei settanta veli, Rome 1997 (introduction
and translation from Arabic).
Il pettine e la brocca. Detti arabi di Gesù, Turin 1997 (introduction and
translation from Arabic).
Ex libris dalla Turchia, Rome 1998, in collaboration with L. Baştuğ.
Al-Ghazâlî, Il concerto mistico e l’estasi, Turin 1999 (introduction and
translation from Arabic).
Imago Fes, Turin 2002, in collaboration with G. M. Rotondi and J. Czaschka.
101 storie sull’Islam che non ti hanno mai raccontato, Rome 2011.
Il Triangolo e la Mezzaluna, Rome 2011 (fourth edition -first one in Italy-,
revised edition of the 1997 Istanbul volume with the same title).
Abū Yazīd al-Bistāmī, Le parole dell’estasi, Naples 2011 (introduction, notes
and translation from Arabic).
‘Izz al-Dīn al-Muqaddasī, I segreti dei fiori e degli uccelli, Rome 2012
(translation and preface).
Books published abroad
Il Triangolo e la Mezzaluna, Istanbul 1997.
Gönye ve Hilal, Istanbul 1998 and 19992 (revised Turkish translation of
triangolo e la mezzaluna).
Il
Translations
Atti del primo convegno su: Gli esiliati libici nel periodo coloniale (28-29 ottobre
2000), edited by F. Sulpizi and S. Hasan Sury, Rome 2002. Arabic-Italian
translation of all the Libyan speakers' speeches: pg. 15-19; 25-52; 83-93; 119127.175-177.
Atti del secondo convegno su: Gli esiliati libici nel periodo coloniale (3-4
novembre 2001), edited by F. Sulpizi and S. HasanSury, Rome 2003. ArabicItalian translation of all the Libyan speakers' speeches: pg. 17-18; 25-31; 4554; 75-111; 163.
Curatorships
VV.AA., Il fondamentalismo islamico, Rome 2006,
curatorship, in collaboration with Alberto Ventura.
introduction
and
VV.AA. Esoterismo e religione nel pensiero di René Guénon, Carmagnola
2009.
P. Filippani-Ronconi, Un altro Islam. Mistica, metafisica e cosmologia, Rome
2012 (posthumous collection and critical edition of published and
unpublished writings about Islam, editing and introduction by A. Iacovella,
preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr).
Id., Regalità iranica e gnosi ismaelita¸Rome 2014 (posthumous collection
and critical edition of published and unpublished writings about Islam,
editing and introduction by A. Iacovella, preface by Giovanni Garbini).
Other collaborations
1994: cooperated with Turin's Giovanni Agnelli Foundation to prepare the dossier «La
condizione dei Cristiani nel mondo musulmano». 1998: fellow in the Bogliasco
Foundation (Studies' Center of Liguria for Arts and Humanities). Since 2011,
regularly collaborating with journals and newspapers (articles, reviews, columns on
literary and orientalistic topics). Editor of Percorsi di cultura politica and of IsIAO
informazione (bulletin of Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente). 2003: collaboration
with Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (entry: “Islam”) to the publication project of
“Oriente Religioso”. Teacher at the “Enrico Mattei” Master's course on Near and
Middle East (2007), Teramo University. Member of IstitutoItaliano per l’Africa e
l’Oriente (between 2001 and 2010 acted as its consultant for the Arabic-Islamic
world), and of Istituto per l’Oriente “C.A. Nallino”. Since December 2009, editor of the
magazine Africa. In February 2011 was appointed secretary of Centro per le Relazioni
Italo-Arabe, directed by Alberto Ventura.