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Dr. Alba Fedeli

Research Associate (October 2018 - March 2020)

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from 10/2018 Research Associate at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg
2018-2019 Research Fellow, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham, UK (consultant for image processing of Codex Zacynthius)
2017-2018 Senior Research Fellow, FSCIRE (Foundation for Religious Studies), Bologna, Italy (research project on Qur’anic manuscripts)
2017-2018 Consultant for the Museum of the Bible, Oklahoma City, USA (consultant for the Christian Arabic collection)
2015-2017 Research Fellow at Center for Religious Studies, Central European University, Budapest. Research: Phylogenetic analysis of Qur’anic manuscripts
2015 Visiting Fellow at John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester UK. Research: A reading of the Qur’ānic Manuscripts of the John Rylands University Library
2011-2015

Ph.D. Student at the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham, UK

Research: Early Qur’ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers, held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham
2011-2015 Principal Investigator of the Research Project The enhancement of the Mingana-Lewis palimpsest (CUL Or. 1287): reading between the lines of its post-processed images with Cambridge University Library
2009-2010 Principal Investigator of the Research project Digitization of the Mingana-Lewis palimpsest, Cambridge University Library with Cambridge University Library
2010

Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Participation in the research group on Ancient Arabia
2004-2012

Instructor at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, Corso di Mediazione Linguistica e Culturale
2000-2008

Librarian (from 2000 to 2003) and Director (from 2003 to 2008) of Ferni Noja Noseda Foundation, Lesa, Italy
2000

Diploma di Laurea in Classical Philology Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy

Research: Il frammento superstite dell’opera manoscritta di al-Barqānī (m.425 e. – 1034 a.D.) al-taḫrīg li-ṣaḥīḥ al-ḥadīṯ, nell’inedito manoscritto della Chester Beatty Library di Dublino

Publications

  • “Digital Humanities and Qur’anic Manuscript Studies: New perspectives and Challenges for collaborative space and pluralism of views”, in Proceedings of the Conference on “Contemporary Western Trends in Qur’anic Studies. The Problem of Objectivity and Bias: An Epistemological Perspective”, Qatar University, College of Shariaa and Islamic Studies, Doha, forthcoming.
  • ‘Isolated Qur’ānic fragments: the case of the three papyri from the Mingana Collection’, in Hilali, A. ed., Proceedings of the Conference ‘Fragmentation and Compilation. The Making of Religious Texts in Islam’, London, Institute for Ismaili Studies, forthcoming.
  • ‘Editing and analysing the evidence of the early Qur’ānic copies: digital philology and phylogenetic networks’, in Hilali, A. & Burge S. eds., Contemporary Qur’anic Studies, forthcoming.
  • ‘Dating early Qur’ānic manuscripts: reading the objects, their texts and the results of their material analysis’ in Dye, G. ed., Proceedings of the Seminar ‘Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?’, forthcoming.
  • ‘Manuscript acquisitions and their later movements: a further note about the case of the Lewis Qur’ānic manuscript’ in Rauch, C. & Liebrenz, B. eds., Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies. Proceeding of the Wetzstein Conference at Berlin State Library, forthcoming.
  • ‘Avrupa’da Kuran el yazmaları çalışmaları: Erken dönem eser ve metinlerine erişim üzerine tarihsel bir inceleme’, [i.e. Qur’ānic manuscript studies in Europe: a historical survey of accessing early artefacts and texts], in Kuramer Konferanslar Kitabı, Kuramer Institute, Istanbul, forthcoming.
  • ‘Datation des témoins matériels anciens : les manuscrits coraniques non datés’, in M. A. Amir-Moezzi and G. Dye eds., Le  Coran  des  historiens, éditions du Cerf, forthcoming.
  • ‘Early Qur’anic Manuscripts and their Networks: a Phylogenetic Analysis project’, co-written with Andrew Edmondson (ITSEE, Birmingham) for the Conference “Qur’anic Manuscript Studies: State of the Field”, (held in Budapest, May 2017).
  • 2015, ‘Early Qur’ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham’, PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, Birmingham.
  • 2015, ‘Early Qur’ānic manuscripts, caption of MS John Rylands Arabic 11’, in Hodgson, J.R. ed., Riches of the Rylands: The Special Collections of the University of Manchester Library. Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 171.
  • 2014, ‘The Kufic collection of the Prussian consul Wetzstein: The 1100 leaves of the Universitätsbibliothek in Tübingen and their importance for palaeography and Koranic criticism’, in Kerr, R.M. and Milo, T. eds., Writings and Writing. Investigations in Islamic Text and Script in honour of Januarius Justus Witkam. Cambridge: Archetype Press, pp. 117 – 142.
  • 2012, ‘Variants and substantiated qirā’āt: a few notes exploring their fluidity in the oldest Qur’ānic manuscripts’, in Groß, M. & Ohlig, K.H. eds., Die Entstehung einer Weltreligion II. Berlin: Verlag Hans Schiler, pp. 403 – 440.
  • 2011, ‘The provenance of the manuscript Mingana Islamic Arabic 1572: dispersed folios from a few Qur’ānic quires’, Manuscripta Orientalia, 17,1, pp. 45 - 56.
  • 2011, ‘The digitization project of the Qur’ānic palimpsest, MS Cambridge University Library Or. 1287, and the verification of the Mingana-Lewis edition: where is salām?’, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 2,1, pp. 100-117.
  • 2010, Review of ‘François Déroche, La transmission écrite du Coran dans les débuts de l’Islam. Le codex Parisino-petropolitanus. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2009’, Bulletin d’Études Orientales, 59, pp. 149-157.
  • 2009, ‘Relevance of the oldest qur’ānic manuscripts for the readings mentioned by commentaries. A note on sura Ṭā-Hā’, Manuscripta Orientalia, 15,1, pp. 3-10.
  • 2008, ‘I manoscritti di Sanaa: fogli sparsi che diventano Corani’ [i.e. Sana’a manuscripts: scattered leaves that become Qur’āns], in Aspesi, F., Brugnatelli, V., Callow, A.L. & Rosenzweig C., eds., Il mio cuore è a Oriente. Studi di linguistica storica, filologica e cultura ebraica dedicati a Maria Luisa Mayer Modena. Milano: Cisalpino, Quaderni di Acme, 101, pp. 25-48.
  • 2007, ‘Lingua e scrittura del Corano: gli inizi’ [i.e. Language and script of the Qur’ān: the beginnings], Guardi, J. ed., Vedi alla voce: lingua araba. Elementi di linguistica per lo studio e la conoscenza dell’arabo (Introduction by Versteegh, K.). Milano: A Oriente!, pp. 17-53.
  • 2005, ‘Mingana and the manuscript of Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis, one century later’, Manuscripta Orientalia, 11,3, pp. 3 - 7.
  • 2005, ‘Early evidences of variant readings in Qur’ānic manuscripts’, in Ohlig, K.H. & Puin, G.R. eds., Die dunklen Anfänge. Neue Forschungen zur Entstehung und frühen Geschichte des Islam. Berlin: Verlag Hans Schiler, pp.293-316. Republished in Ohlig, K.H. & Puin, G.R. eds., The Hidden Origins of Islam. New Research into its early History. New York: Prometheus Books, 2010, pp. 311-334.
  • 2005, ‘A.Perg.2: a non palimpsest and its corrections’, Manuscripta Orientalia, 11,1, pp. 20-27.
  • 2003, ‘Il frammento superstite dell’opera di Barqānī (m.425e. – 1034 a.D.) al-taḫrīg li-ṣaḥīḥ al-ḥadīṯ’ [i.e. The extant fragment of the work of al-Barqānī (d.425/1034) al-taḫrīg li-ṣaḥīḥ al-ḥadīṯ], Rendiconti dell’Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Scienze e Lettere, 137, pp. 3-41.

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