Roberto Tottoli

Roberto Tottoli - BA in Oriental Languages and Literature from Venice Ca' Foscari (1988), PhD from Naples L'Orientale (1996). He studied in Cairo, American University and Jerusalem, Hebrew University, under the direction of M.J. Kister (1993-94), and then taught in Turin (1999-2002) and Naples L'Orientale since 2002, where he has been Full Professor of Islamic Studies since 2011. He has been Visiting Researcher/Professor at Princeton University (2014), Harvard (2015), EHESS in Paris (2016), Institute for Advanced Study in Tokyo (2018), University of Pennsylvania (2019) and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2016-17. He has done research on biblical prophets in Islam (Biblical Prophets in the Qur’an and Islamic Literature, Richmond, 2002), worked on Islamic literature in general and, more recently, on editions and translations of the Qur'an in the modern age (Ludovico Marracci at Work, written with R. Glei, Wiesbaden, 2016; The Qur’an a Guidebook, Berlin, 2023). He has translated various texts of Islamic literature into Italian (al-Muwatta'. Handbook of Islamic Law, Turin, 2011) and edited works on Islam in the West (Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West, London, 2015) or the history of Islamic civilization (The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam, Hoboken, 2018, edited with A. Salvatore, B. Rahimi). He is princopal Investigator of the ERC Synergy project EUQU- The European Qur'an" and has been Rector of the University of Naples L'Orientale since 2020.