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| Giancarlo Anello is an Associate professor of Interculturalism and Institutional Pluralism at the University of Parma. After graduating in law from the University of Palermo, he obtained a PhD in canon and ecclesiastical law from the University of Rome «La Sapienza» in 2003. From 2005 to 2014, he was a researcher at the Department of Law at the University of Parma, where he taught “Ecclesiastical Law”, “Intercultural Law and History of Religions” and “European Legal Roots”. Since 2007, he has been studying Arabic language and culture in Syria, Oman, Tunisia and Jordan. He has participated in international conferences and seminars at the Universities of Ghent, Konstanz, Hofstra, Hamline, Harvard, Rabat, St Andrews, Cornell, the Max Planck Institute, PISAI in Rome and Qom. He is a European KAICIID fellow for 2021. He is the author of books and scientific articles including Organizzazione confessionale, culture e Costituzione (2007); Tradizioni di giustizia e stato di diritto (2011); Teologia linguistica e diritto laico (2015); Re-Emerging Equality. Traditions of Justice in the Cultural Roots of the Egyptian Revolution (2013); Shari‘a costituzionale. Repertorio codicistico, contrattualismo musulmano, ermeneutica giuridico-cognitiva. Contributo a una decodifica culturale dell’art. 2 della Costituzione egiziana (2016); ‘Plural Sharī‛ah’. A Liberal Interpretation of the Sharī‛ah Constitutional Clause of the 2014 Egyptian Constitution (2016); Passato e futuro della minoranza musulmana in Italia, tra islamofobia e pluralismo pragmatico-giuridico (2016); The meaning of ‘Religion’ in the Legal Context. Some Remarks on the Pragmatics of Islam in Egyptian Law (2017); The Umma in Italy: Eurocentric Pluralism, Local Legislation, Courts’ Decisions. How to Make the Right to Worship Real (2020); Political Inclusion, and the Legacy of the Sahifah al-Medina (622 C.E.) (2020); Believers United. Religions in Dialogue through the Law (2022). In 2023 he edited the monographic issue of the journal Modernism. Rivista annuale di storia del riformismo religioso in età contemporanea, dal titolo Modernizzazione e riformismi nell’Islam (1870-1949). Since 2023, he has been a member of the Board of the Islam section of the National Doctorate in Religious Studies (DREST). Since 2024, he has been the Rector's delegate for international relations with the Middle East and India and coordinator for the University of Parma of the CAM (Arab-Mediterranean Campus) project. |
