Publications

2016

art. "al-Dhahabi", in: Encylopaedia of Islam THREE, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2016), Pt. 1, pp. 73-80;

"The Educational Battlefields of the Later Middle Period: Scholarly Conservatism and Ordinary People", in: Armando Salvatore, Babak Rahimi, Roberto Tottoli (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of Islam and Islamic Civilization (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd) [forthcoming];

"Il pensiero politico sunnita nel medioevo islamico. La questione del califfato: al-Mawardi (m. 1058) e Ibn Taymiyya (m. 1328)", in: Storia del pensiero politico islamico, Massimo Campanini (ed.), Milano: Mondadori, 2016 [FORTHCOMING].

2015

Review of Abdul-Rahman Mustafa, On Taqlīd : Ibn al Qayyim’s Critique of Authority in Islamic Law, (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In: Ilahiyyat Studies 6/1 (2015), pp. 130-36;

Review of Rebecca Williams, Muḥammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views, London and New York, Routledge, 2013, in: Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations 2015 (online).

2014

art. "Hasan Kafi al-Aqhisari", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam and Politics (Oxford-New York, OxfordUniversity Press, 2014), pp. 80-83;

"Un caos senza speranza? Studiare il Corano oggi", in: Alfred -Louis de Prémare, Alle origini del Corano, edizione italiana a cura di Caterina Bori (Roma: Carocci, 2014), pp. 11-59;

Alfred-Louis de Prémare, Alle origini del Corano, edizione italiana a cura di Caterina Bori (Roma: Carocci, 2014);

David Bertaina, Christian and Muslim Dialogues. The Religious Uses of a Literary Form in the Early Islamic  Middle East (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011), 247pp. + Bibliography and Index, in: Adamantius 19 (2014,) 605-607 [review];

Konrad Hirschler, The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands. A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), 201 pp. + Bibliography and Index, in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 9 (2014),339-40 [review];

2013

"Theology, Politics and Society: the Missing Link. Studying Religion in the Mamluk Period" in: Stephan Conermann (ed.): Ubi sumus? Quo vademus? Mamluk Studies - State of the Art (Gottingen: Bonn University Press 2013), pp. 57-94;

Kristen Stilt, Islamic Law in Action. Authority Discretion and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), Pp. xii + 238, in: The Mamluk Studies Review XVII (2013,) pp. 251-53 [review];

2012

"All We Know is What We Have Been Told": Reflections on Emigration and Land as Divine Heritage in the Qur'an  in: Carlos A. Segovia and Basil Lourie (ed.s), The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam and Various Other Topics in Memory of John Wansbrough (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2012), pp. 303-340;

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Analecta, vol. iv, a cura di U. Vermeulen e J. van Steenbergen (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), pp. 496 - in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi 7 n.s (2012), pp.269-271 [review];

Gabriel Sayed Reynolds, The Qur'an and its Biblical Subtext (London: Routledge, 2010), in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi 7 n.s (2012), pp. 268-269 [review];

2010

Gabriel sayed Reynolds (ed.), The Qur'an in its Historical Context (London: Routledge: 2008), in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi 7 n.s (2012), pp. 266-268 [review];

2010

-with Livnat Holtzman (ed.s), A Scholar in the Shadow – Essays in the legal and theologicalthought of Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya, numero monografico di Oriente Moderno, n.s XC/1 (2010) (Roma: istituto per l’Oriente Carlo Alfonso Nallino) ;

“Ibn Taymiyya wa-Jama῾atuhu. Authority, Conflict and Consensus in Ibn Taymiyya’s circle”, in: Yossef Rapoport - Muhammad Shahab Ahmed (a cura di), Ibn Taymiyya and his Times (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 23-52.

2009

“The Collection and Edition of Ibn Taymiyya’s works: Concerns of aDisciple”, in: The Mamluk Studies Review xiii/2 (2009), pp. 47-67;

“Alfred-Louis de Prémare, John Wansbrough e le origini dell’Islam: questioni di ieri, letture di oggi”, in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 4 (2009), 137-158 (review article);

J. Hoover, Ibn Taymiyya’s Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism (Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill, 2007), in: The Mamluk Studies Review 13/1 (2009), pp. 173-177 (review);

“Il pensiero radicale islamico da Ibn Abd al-Wahhab a Mawdudi e Sayyid Qutb: tradizione o modernità?”, in: Le religioni e il mondo moderno, a cura di Giovanni Filoramo, vol. III, Islam, a cura di Roberto Tottoli, (Torino: Einaudi, 2009), pp. 69-113.

D. Sourdel-J. Sourdel-Thomine, Certificats de pèlerinage d’époque ayyoubide. Contribution à l’histoire de l’idéologie de l’Islam au temps de croisades (Paris:  L’Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres, 2006), in : Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 4 (2009), pp. 225-226. (review)

2008

M. Bonner, Le Jihad, origines, interprétations et combat, traduit de l’anglais par Alix Barreau, L’Islam en débats (Paris: Téraèdre, 2004), in : Islamochristiana (2006), pp. 314-317 (review) ;

Classical Islam. A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, edited and translated by Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin (London: Routledge, 2003), in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi 3 (2008), pp. 242-243 (review)

Halevi, Muhammad’s Grave. Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi 3 (2008), pp. 245-246 (review);

S. Wild (ed.), Self –Referentiality in the Qur’ān, Diskurse der Arabistik 11 (Harrasowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden: 2006), in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 3 (2008), p 243-245. (review)

2007

“Théologie politique et Islam. Théocratie, dualisme et représentation entre théorie et pratique”, in: Revue de l’Histoire des Religions 224/1 (2007), pp. 5-47.

2006

Interview with Bianca Maria Scarcia Amoretti in: Bianca Maria Scarcia Amoretti (ed.s), Il mondo islamico tra interazione e acculturazione, in: Alifbâ. Studi e ricerche sul mondo arabo-islamico e mediterraneo xix (2005), pp. 57-60.

M. Bonner, Le Jihad, origines, interprétations et combat, traduit de l’anglais par Alix Barreau, L’Islam en débats (Paris: Téraèdre, 2004), in : Islamochristiana (2006), pp. 314-317. (Review)

Bori – S. Pagani, Lo Specchio dello straniero, in: Il Manifesto 21 Settembre, 2006.

2005

Bori, “Ibn Taymiyya contro i filosofi logici”, in: Storia della filosofia nell’Islam Medievale, a cura di Cristina d’Ancona (Einaudi:  Torino 2005) I, pp. 164-66 e 173-79.

2004

“A new source for the biography of Ibn Taymiyya”, in:  Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 67/3 (2004), pp. 321-48;

“E di tutte le cose creammo una coppia.  La teologia femminista islamica contemporanea”, in: Annali di studi religiosi 5 (2004), pp. 117-27;

Bori, voce “Égira”, in:  I racconti della storia, vol. IV, a cura di Chiara Ottaviano, Grande dizionario di storia, Garzanti Torino 2004, pp. 100-109.

2003

Ibn Taymiyya: una vita esemplare. Analisi delle fonti classiche della sua biografia. Supplemento monografico n. 1 alla Rivista di Studi Orientali, LXXVI (2003) (Pisa-Roma:  Istituti Poligrafici Internazionali,  2003) (book)

1999

“Notions of the Heart in the Qur’an and Muslim Tradition” in: Annali di storia dell’esegesi 15/2 (1999), pp. 389-415.