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Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, Epistola sulla differenza tra lo spirito e l'anima (Risālah fī al-faṣl bayn al-rūḥ wa-l-nafs), meglio nota nell'Occidente medievale latino con il titolo «De differentia spiritus et animae»

a cura di Michele Meroni e Davide Righi.

Prefazione di Peter Adamson

Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna 2025

ISBN: 9791280091048

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Le confessioni dei Padri («Iʿtirafāt al-abāʾ»). Tomo 1: Un testo tradizionale di spiritualità della Chiesa copta, introduzione, testo critico arabo, traduzione italiana e note a cura di Bartolomeo Pirone; indici a cura di Davide Righi (Bologna: Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, 2025), 556p.

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ISBN: 9791280091192

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ʿAmr ibn Mattā al-Ṭīrhānī (XIs), Il Libro della Torre. «Kitāb al-Miǧdal», testo critico arabo e traduzione italiana e indici della sezione IV a cura di Gianmaria Gianazza. Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna june 2024, 572 pages.

ISBN: 9791280091178

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ʿAmr ibn Mattā al-Ṭīrhānī (XIs), Il Libro della Torre. «Kitāb al-Miǧdal», testo critico arabo e traduzione italiana della sezione III a cura di Gianmaria Gianazza. Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna 2024, 470 pages, ISBN: 979-1280091161

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ʿAmr ibn Mattā al-Ṭīrhānī (XIs), Il Libro della Torre. «Kitāb al-Miǧdal». Introduzione, testo critico arabo e traduzione italiana delle sezioni I e II a cura di Gianmaria Gianazza. Prefazione di Herman Teule, Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna 2023, 644p.

ISBN: 9791280091147

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Encyclopedic work in seven sections and in thirty chapters, whose al-miǧdal title means "The Tower", compiled by ʿAmr Ibn Mattā al-Ṭīrhānī (XI s.).
In the introduction, in a refined Arabic language in rhyme prose (saǧʿ), after the preface about the honor of science and education, the author presents some details about his life and the work to which he devoted himself.

Then in section I (the exposure) states that man, through creation, must recognize the creator, one and eternal, endowed with reason, living and wise, declaring that science leads to the creator and to faith.
In section II (the building) the Author faces in the first chapter (the top) the unity of God, his essence and his attributes; in the second chapter (the foundation) the humanity and divinity of Christ and in the third (the construction) the Holy Trinity.
This is the first of various other volumes in which the editor intends to publish the entire work of al-miǧdal.

This tome contains sections I and II for a total of 4 of the 30 chapters of the entire work.

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Agiografia e culto dei Sette Dormienti (PCAC 30 / studi)

Anna Tozzi Di Marco, Agiografia e culto dei Sette Dormienti. Storicità e processi di mitologizzazione dell’agiostoria efesina nel Mediterraneo. Prefazione di Bartolomeo Pirone, postfazione di Giancarlo Rinaldi. Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna 2023, 248p.

ISBN: 9791280091154

[Hagiography and cult of the Seven Sleepers. Historicity and mythologization processes of Ephesian hagiohistory in the Mediterranean. Preface by Bartolomeo Pirone, Afterword by Giancarlo Rinaldi].

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As result of over ten years of study and field research, this volume analyzes the origin and evolution of the legend of the Seven Sleepers in the Mediterranean in its historical context, its transmission in the Christian West and East, its links with the 'Judaism and Islam and Pre-Christian Traditions. The agiostory of the martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers and the miracle of their resurrection at the dawn of Christianity (III-Vs.) in Ephesus (current Turkey), represents a transcultural and interreligious myth, flowing centuries later into the Koran, in particular in the 18th sura entitled al-Kahf ("The Cave"), hence Aṣḥāb al-Kahf ("The Companions of the Cave"). The devotion to the seven Ephesian saints is still very much felt today both in Orthodox Christianity and in popular Islam. In the Catholic sphere there is only the Breton interreligious pilgrimage, founded by Louis Massignon in the middle of the last century. However, as evidence of ancient veneration, Europe, and Italy in particular, is scattered with their material traces in the frescoes of churches, monasteries and oratories dedicated to them, and in the intangible literary and musical heritage. Of notable value in Angri (in the province of Salerno) is a unique masterpiece consisting of a group of seven late eighteenth-century statues representing them dressed as Roman soldiers.

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Dānyāl ibn-al Ḥaṭṭāb al-Mārdīnī, I fondamenti della religione e la guarigione dei cuori dei credenti, «Kitāb Uṣūl al-Dīn wa-šifāʾ qulūb al-muʾminīn», studio, testo critico arabo, traduzione italiana, note e indici a cura di Mervat Kelli, prefazione di Bishara Ebeid, Tomo 1, 432p.

ISBN: 9791280091093

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Dānyāl ibn-al Ḥaṭṭāb al-Mārdīnī, I fondamenti della religione e la guarigione dei cuori dei credenti, «Kitāb Uṣūl al-Dīn wa-šifāʾ qulūb al-muʾminīn», studio, testo critico arabo, traduzione italiana, note e indici a cura di Mervat Kelli, Tomo 2, 464p.

ISBN: 9791280091130

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Bartolomeo Pirone, Guida allo studio dell'arabo. Un metodo semplice per entrare passo dopo passo nella lingua del ḍād, Bologna: Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, 2024, 2nd revised and correct edition.

ISBN: 9791280091079

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The book is the result of many years of teaching at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". As an expert guide for having taught the Arabic language to hundreds of students, the Author takes by the hand those who want to acquire the written and spoken Arabic language and, with the necessary patience for anyone wishing to acquire a language, leads the reader and explains all the elements, from the simplest to the most complex.

The book is a precious tool precisely for those who want to approach the "language of ḍād" (the letter that stands out in the cover image) and which, among the emphatic sounds of Arabic, is the one that is most peculiar to arabic speaking people; for this reason Arabic has been called by linguists "the language of ḍād".