"Ti narreremo ora la più bella delle storie": una noncurante nota al racconto di Nabi Yusuf tra letteratura religiosa, poesia, saggi divulgativi.

Biochemical markers in Celiac disease.

Celiac Disease is a worldwide spread condition affecting 1:100-1:200 individuals. It is a permanent food intolerance to ingested gluten in genetically predisposed subjects. In this review we analyze the biochemical markers of the disease going from laboratory findings to histology passing through genetics. Gluten intolerance is a unique model of autoimmune disease in which we can recognize the main environmental factor (gluten) and the more complex genetic background. In additional way, serological markers for monitoring the disease and a safe and effective therapy (gluten free diet) are also available. In deed the environmental factor such as gluten intake is necessary to trigger the disea…

"E non disputate con la Gente del Libro altro che nel modo migliore".

"L'ame d'un pays, parfois, c'est une fleur". Quelques notes sur le discours sur la Palestine et Jérusalem comme transfert culturel entre documentation et littérature en Italie.

Topografia urbana e funzioni della città in ambito arabo-islamico: varietà ed importanza delle fonti in lingua araba

I Banu Abi'l-Husayn o Kalbiti tra Palermo e il Cairo (X-XI secolo): note su una interazione familiare e politica, rileggendo al-Maqrizi.

The Banū Abī’l-Ḥusayn or Kalbiti between Palermo and Cairo (x-xi sec.): Notes on a family and political interaction, rereading al-Maqrīzī · This article aims at investigating a crucial issue with regard to thehistory of Islamic Sicily, the Fatimid presence on the island during the 10th and the 11th century, as well as the integration of the largest island – and ṯaġr – in Muslim hands into the network of the Mediterranean relationships, particularly those between Sicily and Egypt, immediately after the Fatimid Caliph imām al-Mu‘izz li dīn Allāh (d. 975) moved to Cairo in 972. Since the subject of Fatimid Sicily has been scarcely explored, I have chosen to deal with the particular relationshi…

'Ulama' e qudat maghribini a Damasco secondo il dizionario biografico di Nagm al-Din Muhammad al-Ghazzi (sec. xvi-xvii).

Specificità tematica e comunicazione tra culture: l'arabistica siciliana di fronte alla figura di Maometto.

Algerini in Siria tra higrah, unione islamica ed arabismo: un'indagine preliminare con riguardo alle biografie di 'Izz al-Din e Sa'id al-Gaza'iri secondo fonti siriane.