Dr. Alessandro Gori

Associate Professor in Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

Education and Scholarly career:

• Degree in Ethiopian Language and Literature. University of Florence (1991);
• PhD in African Studies. Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples (1998);
• Faculty of Humanities, University of Florence (2001 —2014);
• Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies University of Copenhagen (since 2014)

Research interests:

Literature and culture of the Muslims of the Horn of Africa, theology and law of Islam, Islamic hagiographic literature, Islamic-Christian relations.

References:

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies University of Copenhagen