Role
Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Asian and North African Studies (DSAAM) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Bio
After graduating in Oriental Languages and Literatures (Arabic) from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Ida Zilio Grandi earned a PhD in "Middle Eastern and Maghreb Studies from the Foundation of Islam to the Present Day" from the University of Naples "L'Orientale." Since 2002, she has held several academic positions: she was a tenured researcher at the University of Genoa until 2008, and since 2002, she has taught Arabic Literature and Culture at the University of Urbino and Islamic Law, Interculturality, and Social Citizenship at Ca' Foscari. Between 2013 and 2014, she taught Arabic and Islamic Culture at the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose Santa Maria di Monte Berico, as well as Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Padua and the Master's program at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome.
She is currently an associate professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Ca' Foscari University, where she teaches Islamic studies, Islamic thought, and the language of the Qur'an , and a visiting researcher at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome. She regularly holds seminars at various universities and research institutes.
His scholarly work focuses in particular on the Quran , analyzed in its various interpretations in Arabic religious literature, and on themes of Islamic ethics , from work to hospitality, from peace to mercy, up to the ethical and legal evaluation of architecture. He also studies the relationships between Islamic, Christian, and Jewish thought in medieval Arabic literature and the social and cultural changes affecting the Muslim population in Italy .