Pimpinelli Matteo

matteo.pimpinelli@gmail.com

matteo.pimpinelli@uni-bonn.de

Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Curriculum

Nato a Roma il 30 Gennaio 1996, ha conseguito la Laurea Triennale in Lingue e Civiltà Orientali presso Sapienza Università di Roma a Luglio 2018 (tesi in Lingua e Letteratura Araba dal titolo: La “Casa della Sapienza”: note contemporanee sulla Bayt al-Hikma), poi la Laurea Magistrale a Settembre 2020 (tesi in Paleografia Araba, Codicologia e Numismatica dal titolo: Due frammenti inediti del Mukhtasar fī al-tibb di ‘Abd al-Malik b. Habīb (m. 238/853) dalla Qubbat al-khazna di Damasco). A Luglio 2024 ha conseguito un Dottorato in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa, curriculum di Studi Arabi, Iranici e Islamici (XXXVI ciclo), discutendo una tesi dal titolo: “Optics and Theory of Vision in the Kitāb nur al-‘uyūn wa-jāmi’ al-funūn: Critical Edition, Translation and Comment of the II maqāla“. Attualmente è Research Associate nel progetto DFG “Averroes as Physician: Intellectual and Social Contexts of Medicine in al-Andalus”, presso l’Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Pubblicazioni

  • “Can Silence Be Evidence? A Preliminary Assessment on the Author of the Kitāb nūr al-ʿuyūn wa-ǧāmiʿ al-funūn”, Mamlūk Studies Review, 29 (2026), (forthcoming).
  • Review: Aljoumani, Said, Guy Burak, Konrad Hirschler (eds.), The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār. Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine, Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2025, 626 pp., Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 16/4 (2025), 473-477.
  • “Vision and Medicine: Optics in the Medieval Arabic Ophthalmological Literature”, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamichen Wissenschaften, 24 (2025), 307-329.
  • “Peeking through the Bookshelves. Book Culture in 13th/19th century Bilād al-Shām: the case of Yūsuf Ṣayfī’s manuscript collection at the University of Leeds”, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 16/2 (2025), 163-190.
  • “Lines and Letters: Diagrams in the Arabic Scientific Manuscripts”, Gazette du livre médiéval, 68 (2024), 21-36.
  • “The Margins at the Centre: New Light on Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 2967”, Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, 9 (2024), 213-241.
  • Review: Bongianino, Umberto, The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West. Maghribī Round Script and the Andalusī Identity, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, Al-Qantara, 44/1 (2023), 1-4.
  • “For the Care of Body and Soul: A CPA Bible and an Arab-Islamic Medical Text in a Tenth-Century Palimpsest Fragment”, Medieval Worlds. Comparative & Interdisciplinary Studies, 17 (2022), 145-166.

Partecipazioni a seminari e conferenze

  • 7/11/2025: “Private Libraries in the Ottoman World: Yūsuf Ṣayfī, His Manuscript Collection, and Book Culture in 13th/19th-Century Bilād al-Shām” – Conferenza Internazionale “Libraries in the Ottoman World”, Dublin, Trinity College, 5-8 November 2025.
  • 13/09/2024: “I margini al centro: marginalia e paratesti come strumenti di indagine storico-culturale. Il manoscritto Paris, BnF, Arabe 2967” – Conferenza Internazionale “Lo scritto che non ti aspetti: forme erratiche di libri, scritture, documenti” (AIPD), Rome, Università Roma Tre, 12-14 September 2024.
  • 21/06/2023: “The Margins at the Center: Marginalia and Paratexts as Practices of Reuse in the Arabic Medical Manuscripts” − Panel “A Margine: Reflecting on Paratexts and Paratextuality in Coptic and Arabic Manuscript Tradition”, in “EuARe − Sixth Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion”, St. Andrews, University of St. Andrews, 19-23 June 2023.
  • 1/12/2022: “Linee e lettere: i diagrammi nei manoscritti scientifici arabi” – International contest “FuMaSt, The Future of Manuscript Studies, 3rd edition”, in “L’Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti: 40 anni tra ricerca, didattica e divulgazione”, Udine, Università degli Studi di Udine, 1-3 Dicembre 2022.
  • 3/11/2020: Research Paper Discussion: “For the Care of Body&Soul: the Greek Bible and an Arab-Islamic Botanical Text in a 10-th Century Palimpsest Fragment” – Virtual Forum “Jews, Christians and Muslims as Colleagues and Collaborators in the Abbasid Near East”, Zoom, 20/11/2020 – 11/12/2020.