Dr Bria GIANFRANCO
gianfrancobria.site.uniroma1.it
Oriental Studies
Contact
Scalo S. Lorenzo RM 21, Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4, 00185, zona S. Lorenzo.
+093484599333
gianfrancobria.site.uniroma1.it
Objects of Research
History of Balkan Islam
Rituals, beliefs and embodiment
Mystical and esoteric movements in the Ottoman Empire
Pre-modern Languages
Projects Participations
Muhammad in the mirror of his community in early and modern Islam
ANR-DFG
2017-2020
Teachings
Islamic law
University or Rome "La sapienza", Oriental Studies, italian Publications
[article] https://doi.org/10.1163/22117954-12341401, “Post-Socialist Sufi Revival in Albania: Public Marginality or Spiritual Privatisation??” The Journal of Eropean Muslims, Brill: Leiden 2019, 313–334.
[book] 8878016799, Aquile e dervisci. L’autorità sufi nell’Albania post-socialista, Jouvence, Milano 2019.
[article] https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2017.8.190, “The Alid Iconography between Bektashi Claiming and Popular Piety in Contemporary Albania” in META - Topics & Arguments, 2017, 57-72
[chapter] “La vie de Mahomet dans l’Ephemeris de Georgius Gemnicensis (1507-1508)” in Nijenhuis-Bescher, Andreas, et al., eds. Frontières et altérité religieuse: la religion dans le récit de voyage, XVIe-XXe siècle. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019.
[article] http://phi.unical.it/wp34/occhiali/la-rivista/rivista-occhiali-n-52019/, “The burhan between embodiment, disciplines and techniques of self” in Bria, G., Clayer, N. (Eds.). (2019). "Power, authority and body: Islam’s transformations in South-East Europe between XX and XXI century [Special Issue]". Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico, 5 (1).
[book] 8878016799, Aquile e dervisci. L’autorità sufi nell’Albania post-socialista, Jouvence, Milano 2019.
[article] https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2017.8.190, “The Alid Iconography between Bektashi Claiming and Popular Piety in Contemporary Albania” in META - Topics & Arguments, 2017, 57-72
[chapter] “La vie de Mahomet dans l’Ephemeris de Georgius Gemnicensis (1507-1508)” in Nijenhuis-Bescher, Andreas, et al., eds. Frontières et altérité religieuse: la religion dans le récit de voyage, XVIe-XXe siècle. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019.
[article] http://phi.unical.it/wp34/occhiali/la-rivista/rivista-occhiali-n-52019/, “The burhan between embodiment, disciplines and techniques of self” in Bria, G., Clayer, N. (Eds.). (2019). "Power, authority and body: Islam’s transformations in South-East Europe between XX and XXI century [Special Issue]". Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico, 5 (1).
Ongoing Publications
[article] https://doi.org/10.1163/22117954-12341401, “Post-Socialist Sufi Revival in Albania: Public Marginality or Spiritual Privatisation??” The Journal of Eropean Muslims, Brill: Leiden 2019, 313–334.
[book] 8878016799, Aquile e dervisci. L’autorità sufi nell’Albania post-socialista, Jouvence, Milano 2019.
[article] https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2017.8.190, “The Alid Iconography between Bektashi Claiming and Popular Piety in Contemporary Albania” in META - Topics & Arguments, 2017, 57-72
[chapter] “La vie de Mahomet dans l’Ephemeris de Georgius Gemnicensis (1507-1508)” in Nijenhuis-Bescher, Andreas, et al., eds. Frontières et altérité religieuse: la religion dans le récit de voyage, XVIe-XXe siècle. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019.
[article] http://phi.unical.it/wp34/occhiali/la-rivista/rivista-occhiali-n-52019/, “The burhan between embodiment, disciplines and techniques of self” in Bria, G., Clayer, N. (Eds.). (2019). "Power, authority and body: Islam’s transformations in South-East Europe between XX and XXI century [Special Issue]". Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico, 5 (1).
[book] 8878016799, Aquile e dervisci. L’autorità sufi nell’Albania post-socialista, Jouvence, Milano 2019.
[article] https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2017.8.190, “The Alid Iconography between Bektashi Claiming and Popular Piety in Contemporary Albania” in META - Topics & Arguments, 2017, 57-72
[chapter] “La vie de Mahomet dans l’Ephemeris de Georgius Gemnicensis (1507-1508)” in Nijenhuis-Bescher, Andreas, et al., eds. Frontières et altérité religieuse: la religion dans le récit de voyage, XVIe-XXe siècle. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019.
[article] http://phi.unical.it/wp34/occhiali/la-rivista/rivista-occhiali-n-52019/, “The burhan between embodiment, disciplines and techniques of self” in Bria, G., Clayer, N. (Eds.). (2019). "Power, authority and body: Islam’s transformations in South-East Europe between XX and XXI century [Special Issue]". Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico, 5 (1).
Research Themes
amulets & talismansanticlericalismatheismbiographycitizenshipdancedhikrdivination‘ethnicity’exorcismfamily relationsfatwasfeminismfunerary ritualsglobalisationgnosis & gnosticismhagiographyhealers & healingijtihadkalamlibraries & librariansmagical numbersmiraclesmusicnetworksoral tradition & creationpaintingpilgrimagesproselytismreligion (‘popular’)religion(s)religious personnelritualssaintly lineagessaints & sainthoodshrinessilsilasocial sciencesstate & state-buildingsyncretismstariqattotalitarianismtransition from socialismtrans-nationalismtribes & tribalismwaqf-namaswaqfswaterwedding & wedding ritualszakat