CURRICULUM VITAE
(ENGLISH VERSION)
Academic achievements:
Professor of Sociology at the BA in “Sociological sciences”, and of Social pluralism and cultural conflict at the MA in “Cultural pluralism, social movements and migrations”
2021 – Current
Director of the International Master Course on “Religions, Politics and Global Society”, in collaboration with Université Internationale de Rabat and Università del Piemonte Orientale
2023 – Current
Member of the scientific board of the International Ph.D. in “Religion, Culture and Public Life”, University of Padua
2023 – Current
Research Projects’ Evaluator, European Research Council (ERC), Bruxelles
2016 – 2024
Member of the Council for the Relations with Italian Islam at the Ministry of Interiors
2020 – 2022
President of the Master’s Degree Course (Corso di Laurea Magistrale Interclasse) in “Cultural Pluralism, Social Change and Migrations”
2019 – Current
Full Professor of Sociology, University of Padua, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology – FISPPA
2017 – 2020
Director of the Master course on “Religions, Politics and Citizenship”, in collaboration with the Fundacion Euroarabe of Granada and the FIDR (International Forum on Democracy and
Religion)
2016 – 2017
Member of the Commission on jihadism and the prevention of radicalization at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
2015-2019
President of the Master’s Degree Course (Corso di Laurea Magistrale Interclasse) in “Cultures, Education and Global Society”2014–2016
Director of the Master Course on “Islam in Europe”, University of Padua
2013-2015
President of the Master’s degree Course (“Corso di laurea magistrale”) in “Sociology” at the University of Padua
2004-2018
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Padua, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology – FISPPA
2001-2007
Secretary of the Sociology of Religion section of the Italian Association of Sociology (AIS)
2001-2004
Lecturer, University of Padua, Department of Sociology (tenured after three years)
1999-2001
Annual Lecturer of Sociology, University of Padua (contract professor)
1998-1999
Annual Lecturer of Sociology, “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice
1994-1999
Faculty member and Assistant, with teaching duties, of Urban Sociology, at the Polytechnic of Milan, Faculty of Architecture, and at the University of Milan, Faculty of Political Sciences
Member and co-founder of FIDR (International Forum for Democracy & Religions)
Member and co-founder of Eurislam
Associated member of the CISCOW (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Islam in the Contemporary World) of the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, and of the research group on Islam and modernity (GRIM) at the University of Padua
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Yearbook on the Sociology of Islam, of the review Religioni e Società, of the scientific committee of the review Africa e
Mediterraneo, and of the Dossier Statistico Immigrazione
Other professional activities:
2015 – Current
Columnist for “Corriere della sera – Corriere del Veneto” and “Corriere Imprese Nordest”
2019-2020
Op-Ed author for “La Stampa” and “La Repubblica”
2010-2013
Columnist for “Il Piccolo”
2009-2015
Columnist for “Il Mattino”, “La Tribuna”, “La nuova Venezia”, “Il Corriere delle Alpi”, “Messaggero veneto”
1994-1996
Co-director of the review “Orientamenti”
1990-1995
Editor, then Editor in Chief of the review “Prospettiva sindacale”
1988-1990
Director of the review “Milano Sindacale”
1986-88
Coordinator of the Observatory on military Industry in Lombardy (promoted by CISL trade union and the Centre for Applied Economy of the Catholic University, Milan)
1984-89
In charge of the International Bureau, CISL Milan
1983-84
In charge of the Foreign Workers’ Bureau, CGIL-CISL-UIL (United Trade Unions) Milan
1981-1983
Professional journalist at the Rizzoli group
Apart Italian, I speak and write fluent English and French, and I have a good knowledge of Spanish (I have also studied Arabic and German).
Education
1997
University of Trento. Faculty of Sociology. PhD in Sociology and Social Research. Thesis on
“Conversions to Islam”
1992
University of Milan. Faculty of Political Sciences. University degree with final grade 110/110.
Thesis on “Aspects and problems of immigration in Italy”. Sub-thesis on “The Lombard Ligue”
Erasmus courses, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve:
1989 Sociologie des migrations: relations interethniques et processus d’intégration
1990 Migrations et populations islamiques en Europe
1991 Immigrés, nouvelles populations et la ville européenne
1979-1981
IFG Istituto per la Formazione al Giornalismo, Milan. Biennial national full-time course of journalism
Various Years
Residential courses of foreign languages in English (Dublin several times, Edinburgh, London), French (Paris, Amboise, Cap d’Ail), Spanish (Barcelona), Arabic (Tunis), German (Vienna)
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Researches
International research programs:
2013-2016 Member of the French-Italian research group Circulation religieuses et ancrages méditerranéens. Etats et internationalisation des faits religieux contemporains. Europe du Sud, Maghreb, Moyen-Orient (CIRENLANMED), financed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
2010-2013 Co-director of the project Training of Imams and Community leaders,
Interuniversity Research Centre ‘International Forum for Democracy & Religions’ (FIDR) (Italy)
2010-2012 Member of the national research group PRIN-MIUR Mapping Religious Pluralism in Italy
2008-2010 Director of the international comparative research project on Conflicts over mosques in Europe, for the European program “Religion and democracy” of the Network of European Foundations (direction, report)
2007-2011 Consultant member of L’émergence d’un acteur dans l’espace public. Une approche comparative de la structuration du champ islamique en Suisse, research financed by the Fond National de la Recherche Suisse (FNRS) in the frame of PNR 58, «Religion, Etat et société», in collaboration with Institut d’Etudes Politiques Internationales Universitéde Lausanne, IISMM Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris, University of Padua
2004-2007 Member of the scientific committee and co-coordinator of Europe’s Muslim Communities: Security and Integration Post September 11, promoted by Ethnobarometer (coordination of the Italian research team, national research and report)
2000-2003 Islam in Europe, research report for the European Commission, Forward Studies Unit (several chapters of the final report)
1995-2000 Member of the coordination committee of the research project Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World, European Science Foundation (co-organization of workshops, report)
1991 Médias et minorités arabes en Europe pendant la Guerre du Golfe, European Community; General Division X (national report)
Participation to national researches and grants:
2022 – 2026 Growing old, feeling like citizens? Lived citizenship experiences among Muslim young adults of North African origin in metropolitan and provincial Italy, MUR, Ministry of University and Research, PRIN-PNRR (Principal Investigator)
2013 – 2014 La produzione di conoscenza islamica in Europa: l’islam come brand (The production of Islamic Knowledge in Europe: Islam as a Brand), MIUR Ministry of University and Scientific Research (grant)
2011-2012 Moschee e luoghi di culto islamici in Europa (Mosques and Islamic Places of Worship in Europe), MIUR Ministry of University and Scientific Research (grant)
2008-2010 Conflitti intorno alla costruzione di moschee nello spazio pubblico europeo (Conflicts on the Construction of Mosques in the European Public Space), MIUR Ministry of University andScientific Research (grant)
2008-2010, Il pluralismo religioso in Italia (Religious Pluralism in Italy), MIUR Ministry of University and Scientific Research, PRIN 2008 (participation to research project)
2005-2008 Saperi di confine. Interpretazioni, rappresentazioni e cambiamento culturale (Frontier knowledges. Interpretations, representations and cultural change), MIUR Ministry of University and Scientific Research (participation to research project)
2003-2007 Trasformazione dei discorsi nel e sull’islam nello spazio pubblico europeo (Transformation of Discourses in and on Islam in the European Public Space, MIUR Ministry of University and Scientific Research (grant)
2003-2005 Tra religione e marketing. Intersezioni e influenze reciproche (Between Religion and Marketing. Intersections and Reciprocal Influences), MIUR Ministry of University and Scientific Research (participation to research project)
2000-2003 Costruzione dello spazio pubblico mediatico (The Construction of the Mediatic Public Space), MIUR Ministry of University and Scientific Research (participation to research project)
1999-2002 Tra scienza e religione. Aspetti della New Age (Between Science and Religion. Aspects of New Age), MIUR Ministry of University and Scientific Research (participation to research project)
1999 La presenza araba in Italia: sociologia e antropologia. Repertorio bibliografico (The Arab Presence in Italy: Sociology and Anthropology. Bibliographical references), Ministry of Culture, General Direction on Publishing sector (research report)
1998-2000 Il pluralismo morale e religioso in Italia e in Europa (Religious and Moral Pluralism in Italy and Europe), MIUR Ministry of University and Scientific Research (participation to research project)
1998-1999 Confessioni religiose, movimenti e altre organizzazioni di culto in Italia (Religious Confessions, Movements and other Cult Organizations in Italy), Ministry of Interiors, General Direction on Cults Affairs (co-conducted and final report)
1994 L’associazionismo e l’immigrazione in Lombardia: quattro province a confronto (Associations and Immigration in Lombardy), Cesvi (research report)
1993 Rapporto IReR ‘91-’92, IreR Regione Lombardia; chapter on immigration and Islamic presence (research report)
1993 Immigrazione e famiglie miste: i matrimoni interreligiosi – il caso dell’islam (Immigration and Mixed Families: Interreligious Marriages), Comune di Milano (research report)
1992-1993 L’immigrazione a Milano. Un bilancio interdisciplinare (Immigration in Milan. An Interdisciplinary Overview), Comune di Milano Iref (directed)
1992 Dossier scuola 1991-92. Il diritto allo studio negli anni ‘90, IreR Regione Lombardia; chapter on migrants and the school system (research report)
1992 Uno sviluppo ineguale. Rapporto sociale sulla diocesi ambrosiana, Centro Sociale Ambrosiano; chapter on immigration (co-conducted)
1991-1992 L’immigrazione islamica in Italia, Iscos 1988 La realtà sociale lombarda: fenomeni e tendenze. Rapporto IreR ‘88, IReR Lombardy (research report on immigration)
1991 Bilancio delle ricerche e delle conoscenze relative all’Islam europeo – La situazione italiana (State of Art of Researches and Knowledge concerning European Islam – The Italian Situation), Fondazione Agnelli (research report)
1990 L’immigrazione straniera in Italia. Le politiche comunali: il caso di Milano (Foreign Immigration in Italy. Municipal Policies: the Milan Case), research report for Censis
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Publications
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Books:
Diversità e convivenza. Le conseguenze culturali delle migrazioni, Roma, Laterza, 2025
Governare le migrazioni, Roma, Laterza, 2023
Il sesto continente. Le migrazioni tra natura e società, biodiversità e pluralismo culturale, Sansepolcro (AR), Aboca Edizioni, 2023 (con G. Bernardi e P. Vineis)
Dizionario del Nordest. Contributi per l’analisi di un immaginario, Dueville (VI), Ronzani, 2023
Torneremo a percorrere le strade del mondo. Breve saggio sull’umanità in movimento, Milano, UTET, 2021
La spirale del sottosviluppo. Perché (così) l’Italia non ce la può fare, Roma, Laterza, 2020
5 cose che tutti dovremmo sapere sull’immigrazione (e una da fare) (5 things we all should know about immigration, an one thing to do) , Roma, Laterza, 2018
Immigrazione. Cambiare tutto (Immigration. The need to change everything), Roma, Laterza, 2018
Punti di vista. Sociologia delle cose e di altre cose (Viewpoints. Sociology of things and other things), Monticello Conte Otto, 2018
I musulmani nelle società europee. Appartenenze, interazioni, conflitti (Muslims in European societies. Belongings, interactions, conflicts), (a cura di S. Allievi, R. Guolo e M.K. Rhazzali), Milano, Guerini e Associati, 2017
Il burkini come metafora. Conflitti simbolici sull’islam in Europa (The burkini as a metaphor. Symbolic conflicts on Islam in Europe), Roma, Castelvecchi, 2017
Conversioni: verso un nuovo modo di credere? Europa, pluralismo, islam (Conversion: Towards a new way of believing? Europe, pluralism, Islam), Napoli, Guida Edizioni, 2017
Nel mondo dei qualsiasi (In Everyman’s world – poems), San Cesario di Lecce (LE), Manni Editori, 2016
“A Dio appartengono i nomi più belli”. Come pregano i musulmani (“To God belongs the most beautiful names”. How Muslims pray), Bologna, EDB, 2016
Tutto quello che non vi hanno mai detto sull’immigrazione (Everything has never been told about immigration) (con G. Dalla Zuanna), Roma, Laterza, 2016
Chi ha ucciso il PD (Who killed the Democratic Party), Milano, Mimesis, 2013
Ma la moschea no. I conflitti sui luoghi di culto islamici, dall’Europa al Nordest (No to the mosque. Conflicts on Islamic places of worship, from Europe to the Italian North-East), Padova, La Gru, 2012
Pubblico e privato. Poesie civili e incivili (Public and private. Civilized and uncivilized poems), Padova, Le Gru, 2012
Il giorno dopo. Poesie (The day after. Poems), Padova, Le Gru, 2012
Avrupa’da Müslüman Öznenin Üretimi: Fikirler, Bilinçler, Örnekler, (translation of Producing Islamic Knowledge), Istambul, Iletisim, 2012
Producing Islamic Knowledge. Transmission and dissemination in Western Europe (eds. M. Van Bruinessen and S. Allievi), London-New York, Routledge, 2011
La guerra delle moschee. L’Europa e la sfida del pluralismo religioso (The war of mosques. Europe and the challenge of religious pluralism), Venezia, Marsilio, 2010
Al-Islâm al-Itâlî. Rihla(t) fî waqâ’i’ al-diyâna al-thâniya, (translation of Islam italiano), Abu Dhabi, Kalima, 2010
Mosques in Europe. Why a solution has become a problem (ed.), London, Alliance Publishing Trust / Network of European foundations, 2010
Conflicts over Mosques in Europe. Policy issues and trends, London, Alliance Publishing Trust / Network of European Foundations, 2009
I musulmani e la società italiana. Percezioni reciproche, conflitti culturali, trasformazioni sociali (Muslims and Italian society. Reciprocal perceptions, cultural conflicts, social transformations) (ed.), Milano, Franco Angeli, 2009
Le trappole dell’immaginario: islam e occidente (The traps of imaginary: Islam and the West), Udine, Forum, 2007
Niente di personale, signora Fallaci. Una trilogia alternativa (Nothing personal, Mrs. Fallaci. An alternative trilogy), Reggio Emilia, Aliberti, 2006
Pluralismo (Pluralism), EMI, Bologna, 2006
Ragioni senza forza, forze senza ragione. Una risposta a Oriana Fallaci (Reasons without force, forces without reason. An answer to Oriana Fallaci), Bologna, EMI, 2004
Muslims in the Enlarged Europe (eds. B.Maréchal, S.Allievi, F.Dassetto, J.Nielsen), LeidenBoston, Brill, 2003
Islam italiano. Viaggio nella seconda religione del paese (Italian Islam. A journey into the country’s second religion), Torino, Einaudi, 2003
Salute e salvezza. Le religioni di fronte alla nascita, alla malattia e alla morte (Health and Salvation. Religions face to birth, illness and death), Bologna, EDB, 2003
Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe (eds. S.Allievi and J.Nielsen), Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2003
Donne e religioni. Il valore delle differenze (Women and religions. The value of differences) (ed.), Bologna, EMI, 2002
Musulmani d’occidente. Tendenze dell’islam europeo (Muslims of the West. Tendencies of European Islam), Roma, Carocci, 2002 (new edition 2005)
Un Dio al plurale. Presenze religiose in Italia (A God in the plural. Religious presences in Italy), Bologna, EDB, 2001 (with G.Guizzardi and C.Prandi)
La tentazione della guerra. Dopo l’attacco al World Trade Center: a proposito di Occidente, islam e altri frammenti di conflitto fra culture (The temptation of war. After the World Trade Center attack: on the West, Islam and other fragments of conflict among cultures), Milano, Zelig, 2001, pp.190
Nouveaux protagonistes de l’islam européen. Naissance d’une culture euro-islamique? Le rôle des convertis, European University Institute, Working Papers, n.18, 2000, pp.35
Il libro e la spada. La sfida dei fondamentalismi (The Book and the Sword. The challenge of fundamentalisms), Torino, Claudiana, 2000, pp.205 (with D. Bidussa and P. Naso)
Conversions à l’islam en Europe / Conversions to Islam in Europe, Social Compass, SAGE Publications, vol.46, n.3, pp.243-362 (monographic issue, ed. with F. Dassetto)
I nuovi musulmani. I convertiti all’islam (New Muslims. Converts to Islam), Edizioni Lavoro, Roma, 1999, pp.296
Islamica. Un itinerario bibliografico alla scoperta dell’Islam (Islamica. A bibliographical itinerary to the discovery of Islam), Biblioteca comunale, Carpi, 1999, pp.44 (revised and updated edition 2002)
Les convertis à l’islam. Les nouveaux musulmans d’Europe, L’Harmattan, Paris, 1998, pp.383
L’occidente di fronte all’islam (The West facing Islam) (ed.), Franco Angeli, Milano, 1996, pp.224
Il libro dell’altro (The book of the other), EDB, Bologna, 1995, pp. 132
Il ritorno dell’islam. I musulmani in Italia, Edizioni Lavoro, Roma, 1993, pp.295 (with F. Dassetto)
Le parole della Lega (The words of the Ligue, a xenophobic secessionist party), Garzanti, Milano, 1992, pp.115
Médias et minorités ethniques. Le cas de la guerre du Golfe, Academia-Sybidi, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1992, pp. 166 (with A. Bastenier, A. Battegay and A. Boubeker)
La sfida dell’immigrazione (The challenge of immigration), EMI, Bologna, 1991, pp.170
Essays in edited books and collective publications (selection):
Exceptionalism and Reactive Identities: Narratives on Islam in the Public Space, in L. Sponholz, A.M. Meuth, M. Weiberg, S. Zajak e S. Berger (a cura di), “Radicalizing the Mainstream in Western Europe. The Far Right and Narratives of Islam in Contemporary and Historical Perspective”, Palgrave, 2025, pp.39-52 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-85963-2_3
Città e mutamento culturale, in C. Angarano, C. Sansò, F. Visconti (a cura di), “INCLUCITY. Inclusive spaces for the intercultural city”, Napoli, CLEAN, 2025, pp. 92-95
Nuove cittadine e nuovi cittadini crescono: i percorsi adulti di figlie e figli della migrazione (con A. Calabretta), in IDOS (a cura di), “Dossier Statistico Immigrazione 2024”, Roma, Centro Studi e Ricerche IDOS, 2024, pp. 215-218
Il rapporto con l’islam italiano, in D. Di Sanzo e C. Paravati (a cura di), “Compio semplicemente il mio dovere. Scritti per Paolo Naso”, Roma, Com Nuovi Tempi, 2024, pp. 221-230
Homo Sapiens: La lunga marcia (con Guido Barbujani e Silvia Ferrara), in R. Bonsignori e D. Singer (a cura di), “Andare verso, Andare oltre. Idee, pensieri e racconti dal Festival della Comunicazione”, Milano, Frame Edizioni, 2024, pp. 47-74
Accesso alla cittadinanza italiana e suo impatto sull’integrazione dei migranti: policy e prospettive, in B. Coccia, R. Cramerotti, L. Di Sciullo, A. Ricci (a cura di), “Oltre gli sbarchi. Governance delle migrazioni economiche in Italia e nuove proposte di policy“, Roma, Istituto S. Pio V e Centro Studi e Ricerche Idos, 2024, pp. 94-101
An Unacknowledged Presence – Islam in the Italian Public Space: History, Reactions, Perspectives, in R. Ceylan, M. Mücke (eds.), “Muslims in Europe. Historical developments, present issues, and future challenges”, Wiesbaden, Springer, 2024, pp. 149-164 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-43044-3_9
Immigration, émigration, migrations internes en Italie. Une nouvelle circularité globale, in A. Calabretta (a cura di), “Mobilités et migrations trans-méditerranéennes”, Padova, Padova University Press, 2024, pp. 41-58
Trasformazioni della mobilità umana: perché parlare di migrazioni non basta più, in Idos/Confronti, “Dossier Statistico Immigrazione 2023”, Roma, Idos, 2023, pp. 30-33
Demografia e immigrazione. Dibattito pubblico inadeguato, in G. Guadagni, “Ghiacciaio Italia. Emergenza natalità, la nuova questione sociale”, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2023, pp. 87-90 (intervista)
Islamic knowledge in Europe: Where does it come from? Transformation as a structural condition, in R. Tottoli (a cura di), “Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West”, Routledge, Abingdon-New York, 2022, pp. 301-313
Mobilità sociale, in G. Righetti (a cura di), “Le parole dell’uguaglianza”, Donzelli, Roma, 2022, 141-144
Anche il pacifismo ha un prezzo, in R. Bonacina (a cura di), “Pacifisti o pacificatori? Diciotto voci per una risposta”, Vita, instant book, reperibile online http://www.vita.it/it/magazine/2022/05/17/pacifisti-o-pacificatori/433/, 2022, pp.75-79
L’islam europeo: da dove viene, dove sta andando, in Centro Studi Confronti, “Per un islam europeo. I Balcani, la sponda sud del Mediterraneo e il continente europeo: una storia da riscrivere”, Roma, Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, 2021, pp. 13-17
Pluralismo religioso in Europa: novità ed elementi di continuità, in Idos, “Dossier Statistico Immigrazione 2021”, Roma, Idos, 2019, pp. 77-80
Senza terrore. Perché l’Italia era potenzialmente il terreno di coltura ideale del radicalismo islamico: e perché è andata altrimenti. Un bilancio, in M. Bernardini, E. Francesca, S. Borrillo e N. Di Mauro (a cura di), “Jihadismo e carcere in Italia. Analisi, strategie e pratiche di gestione tra sicurezza e diritti”, Roma, Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2021, pp. 47-62
Tre linee di frattura, in AA.VV., “Il mondo dopo la fine del mondo”, Roma, Laterza, 2020, pp. 3-12
How cultural and religious pluralism shapes Europe: The role of Muslim minorities, in Volker Kaul, Ananya Vajpeyi (a cura di), “Minorities and Populism. Critical perspectives from South Asia and Europe”, Cham, Springer, 2020, pp. 171-192
La trappola dell’inerzia. L’Italia di fronte all’immigrazione, in V. De Cesaris, M. Impagliazzo (a cura di), “L’immigrazione in Italia da Jerry Masslo ad oggi”, Milano, Guerini e Associati, 2020, pp. 43-65
Un ragionevole proposta di gestione delle migrazioni, in R. Falcone, P. Greco e G. Peruzzi (a cura di), “La scienza fra etica e politica. L’eredità di Carlo Bernardini e le prospettive future”, 2020, pp. 63-76
Le aporie dell’integrazione, in Idos, “Dossier Statistico Immigrazione 2020”, Roma, Idos, 2019, pp. 179-180
Religious diversity and integration in Italy. The consequences of religious pluralism, in B. Coccia e L. Di Sciullo (a cura di), “The forgotten integration. Considerations for an Italian model of participative cohabitation between immigrants and natives”, Roma, Centro studi e ricerche Idos, 2020, pp. 86-90
Diversità religiosa e integrazione in Italia. Le conseguenze del pluralismo religioso, in B. Coccia e L. Di Sciullo (a cura di), “L’integrazione dimenticata. Riflessioni per un modello italiano di convivenza partecipata tra immigrati e autoctoni”, Roma, Centro studi e ricerche Idos, 2020, pp. 91-96
3 ottobre 2013. Strage di Lampedusa. Il lavoro migrante: drammi, paure, conflitti, in A. Bolaffi e G. Crainz (a cura di), “Calendario civile europeo. I nodi storici di una costruzione difficile”,Roma, Donzelli, 2019, pp. 399-410
Frontiere subito aperte e integrazione, in D. Del Prete (a cura di), “Anno zero. Idee riformiste per il futuro dell’Italia”, Roma, LUISS University Press, 2019, pp. 145-160
Breve agenda per gestire un fenomeno normale, in Idos, “Dossier Statistico Immigrazione 2019”, Roma, Idos, 2019, pp. 181-182
Immigrazione e comunità locali, prefazione a J. Betti (a cura di), “Glocal community: pane, pacee libertà”, Bologna, Bonomo Editore, 2019, pp. 3-8
L’Europa e la società plurale. Il burkini come metafora, in S. Morandini (a cura di), “L’etica nelle società plurali. Tra culture e religioni”, Padova, Proget Edizioni, 2019, pp. 57-70
Prefazione, in M. Bombardieri, M.C. Giorda, S. Hejazi (eds.), “Capire l’Islam. Mito o realtà?”, Brescia, Scholé, 2019, pp. V-VIII
L’islam europeo, in M. Lazar, M. Salvati e L. Sciolla (eds.), “Europa. Un’utopia in costruzione. Vol. III Culture e società”, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2018, pp. 457-465
How Islamic culture is produced in the European context, in A. Castelnuovo (a cura di), “L’islam ed i grandi educatori. La religioni come sistemi educative”, Livorno, Bleforte & C., 2018, pp. 53-68
L’islam nello spazio pubblico italiano, in M. El Ayoubi e C. Paravati (eds.), “Dall’islam in Europa all’islam europeo. La sfida dell’integrazione”, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 33-42
Discriminazione e religione: il caso dell’islam, in A. Alietti (ed.), “Razzismi, discriminazioni e disuguaglianze. Analisi e ricerche sull’Italia contemporanea”, Milano, Mimesis, 2017, pp. 195-215
Immigrazione, pluralismo, islam: le vere poste in gioco di un dibattito male impostato, in U. Curi (ed.), “Vergogna ed esclusione. L’Europa di fronte alla sfida dell’emigrazione”, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2017, pp.31-62
L’islam in Europa diventa islam europeo? La produzione di conoscenza islamica in contesto minoritario, in S. Allievi, R. Guolo, M.K. Rhazzali (eds.), “I musulmani nelle società europee. Appartenenze, interazioni, conflitti”, Milano, Guerini e associati, 2017, pp.33-49
Prefazione, in F. Cerchiaro, “Amori e confini. Le coppie miste tra islam, educazione dei figli e vita quotidiana”, Napoli, Guida, 2016, pp.5-9
Conflicts over Mosques in Europe: Between Symbolism and Territory, in N. Göle, “Islam and Public Controversy in Europe”, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2013, pp. 75-88 (re-published LondonNew York, Routledge, 2016)
The production of Western Islamic knowledge, in R. Tottoli (ed.), “Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West”, Abingdon-New York, Routledge, 2015, pp. 426-440 Scopus
La presenza dell’islam nello spazio pubblico italiano: a che punto siamo?, in P. Naso e B. Salvarani (eds.), “I ponti di Babele. Cantieri, progetti e criticità nell’Italia delle religioni”, Bologna, EDB, 2015, pp. 209-228
Nuovi modi di leggere il mondo, in AA.VV. “Il futuro ci insegue. Prospettive”, Milano, Edizioni di Maieutica, 2015, pp. 161-188
Silent Revolution in the Country of the Pope: From Catholicism as the “Religion of Italians” to the Pluralistic “Italy of Religions”, in F. De Donno and S. Gilson (eds.), “Beyond Catholicism. Heresy, Mysticism, and Apocalypse in Italian Culture”, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 287-313
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Il fattore “C”. Dinamiche (inter-)culturali e logiche istituzionali: osservazioni a partire dal caso dell’I.P.M ‘Cesare Beccaria’ (The “C” Factor. (Inter-)Cultural Dynamics and Institutional Logics: Observations from the case of the Institute of Juvenile Prevention ‘Cesare Beccaria’), in A. Campus (ed.), “Minori stranieri soli. Tra politiche di accoglienza e politiche di controllo”, Roma, Officina Edizioni, 2004, pp. 221-256
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The Media, in B.Maréchal, S.Allievi, F.Dassetto e J.S.Nielsen (eds.), “Muslims in the Enlarged Europe. Religion and Society”, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2003, pp. 289-330
Relations and Negotiations: Issues and Debates on Islam, in B.Maréchal, S.Allievi, F.Dassetto e J.S.Nielsen (eds.), “Muslims in the Enlarged Europe. Religion and Society”, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2003, pp. 331-368
Relations between Religions, in B.Maréchal, S.Allievi, F.Dassetto e J.S.Nielsen (eds.), “Muslims in the Enlarged Europe. Religion and Society, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2003, pp. 369-414
The International Dimension, in B.Maréchal, S.Allievi, F.Dassetto e J.S.Nielsen (eds.), Muslims in the Enlarged Europe. Religion and Society”, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2003, pp. 449-488
Il pluralismo introvabile: i problemi della ricerca comparativa (Lost Pluralism: The Problems of Comparative Research), in F.Garelli, G.Guizzardi e E.Pace (eds.), “Un singolare pluralismo. Indagine sul pluralismo morale e religioso degli italiani”, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003, pp. 249-295
Sciiti d’Europa. Una minoranza senza visibilità (Shiites of Europe. A Minority without Visibility), in A.Nesti (ed.), “Laboratorio Iran. Cultura, religione, modernità in Iran”, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2003, pp.113-126
Tendenze dell’islam europeo (Tendencies of European Islam), in D.Melfa (ed.), “Islam. Frammenti di complessità”, Catania, Bonanno Editore-Università di Catania, 2002, pp. 103-120
L’Europa è dar al-islam? Trasformazioni del paesaggio religioso d’occidente (Is Europe dar alIslam? Transformations of the Religious Landscape in the West), in G.Restifo (ed.), “Eredità del XX secolo in Medio Oriente”, Milano, Selene, 2002, pp. 363-384
Muslims in Italy, in R.Leveau, K.Mohsen-Finan e C.Wihtol de Wenden (eds.), “New European Identity and Citizenship”, London-Paris, Ashgate-Institut Français des Relations Internationales, 2002, pp. 37-47
Una nuova religione europea? L’islam alla prova dell’Occidente (A New European Religion? Islam at the West Test), introduction to T.Ramadan, “Essere musulmano europeo” (original title: “To be a European Muslim”), Troina (En), Città Aperta, 2002, pp. 13-39
Italie, in B.Maréchal (ed.), “L’Islam et les musulmans dans l’Europe élargie: radioscopie/A guidebook on Islam and Muslims in the wide contemporary Europe”, Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia-Bruylant, 2002, pp. 101-106
L’ultimo tabù: individuo e società di fronte alla morte (The Last Taboo: Individuals and Society facing Death), in M. Bucchi and F. Neresini (eds.), “Manuale di sociologia della salute” (“Handbook on Sociology of Health”), Roma, Carocci, 2001
Les musulmans et la politique, in F.Dassetto, B.Maréchal and J.Nielsen (eds.), “Convergences musulmanes. Aspects contemporains de l’islam dans l’Europe élargie”, Louvain-la-Neuve, Bruylant-Academia e L’Harmattan, 2001, pp.109-122
Les médias, in F.Dassetto, B.Maréchal and J.Nielsen (eds.), “Convergences musulmanes. Aspects contemporains de l’islam dans l’Europe élargie”, Louvain-la-Neuve, BruylantAcademia e L’Harmattan, 2001, pp.133-146
Parole dell’islam, parole sull’islam. Formazione culturale, comunicazione e ruolo dei mass media (Words on Islam, Words of Islam. Cultural Development, Communication and the Role of Mass Media), in I.Siggillino (ed.), “I media e l’islam. L’informazione e la sfida del pluralismo religioso”, Bologna, EMI, 2001, pp.31-78
Morale, valori e pluralismo religioso. Analisi di alcune ricerche comparative (Morality, Values and Religious Pluralism. Analysis of some Comparative Researches), in S. Allievi et alii, “Religious and Moral Pluralism in Italy”, Padova, Cleup-Dipartimento di Sociologia, 2001, pp. 75-86
Islam e violenza (Islam and Violence), in “Annuario della pace 2000-2001”, Trieste, Asterios, 2001, pp.195-208
Il ruolo della religione nelle famiglie miste (The role of religion in mixed families), in M. Tognetti Bordogna (ed.) “Legami familiari e immigrazione: i matrimoni misti”, Torino, L’Harmattan Italia, 2001, pp. 97-126
Migrazioni, globalizzazione e pluralità religiosa. Cambiamenti in atto nel paesaggio e nelle dinamiche religiose in Europa (Migrations, Globalization and Religious Pluralism), G.Scidà (ed.), “I sociologi italiani e le dinamiche dei processi migratori” (“Italian Sociologists and the Dynamics of Migration Processes”), Milano, Franco Angeli ISMU, 2000, pp. 13-24
Les conversions à l’islam. Rédefinition des frontières identitaires, entre individu et communauté, in F.Dassetto (ed.), “Paroles d’islam / Islamic Words. Individuals, Societies and Discourses in Contemporary European Islam” (bilingual), Paris, Maisonneuve & Larose, 2000, pp.157-182
Complessità e dinamiche dell’islam in Italia, in M. El Ayoubi (ed.), “Islam plurale”, Roma, ComNuovi Tempi, 2000, pp.91-115
The Islamic Presence in Italy: Social Rootedness and Legal Questions, in S. Ferrari e A. Bradney (eds.), “Islam and European Legal Systems”, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000, pp. 155-180 (with F.Castro)
Le medine invisibili. Metamorfosi della tradizione nell’islam europeo (Invisible Medinas. Metamorphosis of Tradition in the European Islam), in B.M. Pirani (ed.), “L’abbaglio d’occidente. Per il diritto alla differenza culturale”, Roma, Bulzoni, 2000
La città plurale. Nuove presenze culturali e mutamento urbano (The Plural City. New cultural Presences and Urban Change), in I.Siggillino (ed.), “L’islam nelle città. Dalle identità separate alla comunità plurale” (“Islam in the cities. From separate identities to plural communities”, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2000, pp.13-50
Immigrazioni e religioni in Europa. Identità in trasformazione (Immigrations and Religions in Europe. Identities in Transformation), in G.Procacci and N.Salamone (eds.), “Mutamento sociale e identità” (“Social Change and Identities”), Milano, Guerini Studio, 2000, pp.83-101
Sociologia e immigrazione araba in Italia: tra integrazione e identità (Sociology and Arab Immigration in Italy: Between Integration and Identity), in I.Camera d’Afflitto (ed.), “La presenza araba-islamica nell’editoria italiana”, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, “Quaderni di Libri e Riviste d’Italia”, n.44, 2000, pp.55- 59 e 253-257 (Arabic Edition in the same volume)
Ritualizzazione del quotidiano. L’esperienza della preghiera nell’islam (Ritualization of Daily Life. The Experience of Prayer in Islam), in AA.VV., “Come incontrare Dio”, Parma, Benedettina Editrice, 1999, pp. 49-80
Lo sguardo occidentale sull’islam trapiantato (The Wester View on Transplanted Islam), in M.Delle Donne (ed.), “Relazioni etniche, stereotipi e pregiudizi”, Roma, EdUP, 1998, pp. 205-212
Muslim Minorities in Italy and their Image in Italian Media, in S.Vertovec e C.Peach (eds.), “Islam in Europe. The Politics of Religion and Community”, London, Macmillan, 1997, pp. 211-223
Immigrazione e pluralità religiosa, in M.Ambrosini e M.Salati (eds.), “Il valore della differenza. Tendenze, problemi, interventi sull’immigrazione straniera”, Milano, Paoline, 1997, pp.105-120
Muslim Organizations and Islam-State Relations: The Italian Case, in W.A.R. Shadid e P.S. van Koningsveld (eds.), “Muslims in the Margin. Political Responses to the Presence of Islam in Western Europe”, Kok Pharos, Kampen, 1996, pp.182-201
Il ruolo della religione nelle famiglie miste (The role of religion in mixed families), in M. Tognetti Bordogna (ed.), “Legami familiari e immigrazione: i matrimoni misti”, L’Harmattan Italia, Torino, 1996, pp.97-126
Quando l’Altro è l’Islam. Esercizi di comprensione del ruolo delle comunità musulmane in Europa (When the Other is Islam. Exercises in understanding the role of Muslim Communities in Europe), in F.Pizzini (ed.), “L’Altro: immagine e realtà. Incontro con la sociologia dei paesi arabi” (“The Other: Images and Reality. Encounters with the sociology of Arab countries”), Milano, Franco
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The Muslim Community in Italy, in G.Nonneman, T.Niblock e B.Szajkowski (ed.), “Muslim Communities in the New Europe”, Reading, Ithaca Press, 1996, pp. 315-327
Les conversions à l’islam, in F.Dassetto (ed.), “Facettes de l’islam belge”, Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia-Bruylant, 1996, pp.97-102
Italie, in F.Dassetto e Y.Conrad (ed.), “Muslims in Europe / Musulmans en Europe Occidentale. Bibliographie commentée”, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1996, pp.109-124
L’Islam in Italia: profili storici e sociologici (Islam in Italy. Historical and sociological sketches), in S. Ferrari (ed.), “L’Islam in Europa. Lo statuto giuridico delle comunità musulmane”, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1996, pp.241-268
Données sociales et contexte culturel de l’implantation musulmane, in R.Bistolfi, F.Zabbal (ed.), “Islams d’Europe. Intégration ou insertion communautaire?”, Editions de l’Aube, 1995, pp.316-319
Organizzazione e potere nel mondo musulmano: il caso della comunità di Milano (Organization and Power in the Muslim milieu: The case of the community of Milan), in AA.VV., “I musulmani nella società europea”, Edizioni della Fondazione Agnelli, Torino, 1994, pp. 155-176
Il lavoro extracomunitario in Italia (Foreign labour in Italy), in “Rapporto Cesos, Le relazioni sindacali in Italia, 1992-93” (“Cesos Report. Labour Relations in Italy, 1992-93”), Edizioni Lavoro, Roma, 1994, pp. 191-218
I giovani musulmani in Europa: tra identità tradizionale e mutamento culturale (Young Muslims in Europe: Between Traditional Identities and Cultural Change), in L. Tomasi (ed.), “I giovani e le religioni in Europa”, Reverdito, Trento, 1993, pp.81-93
L’islam en Italie: histoire et présence, in J. Waardenburg (ed.) “L’islam en Europe: aspects religieux”, Université de Lausanne, Département d’histoire et de sciences des religions, Lausanne, 1993, pp. 87-93
Other essays (selection):
Muslims in Europe and Italian Islam, “Journal of Islam in Europe and in the Mediterranean World”, 1(1), 34-50. DOI: 10.25430/pupj-JIEMW-2025-1-4
European Islam and the Italian case. Tendencies and specificities, in “Contemporary Islam” (monographic issue: ‘Dynamics of Muslim Life’), novembre 2025 (open access https://rdcu.be/eOY46 )
Occidente, in “Dialoghi Mediterranei”, 1 settembre 2025, https://www.istitutoeuroarabo.it/DM/occidente/
Tra apocalittici e tecnoentusiasti. Giovani, identità, tecnologie e social, in “Nel Raggio Verde. Quaderni di studio su infanzia e adolescenza”, n. 3, 2024, pp. 7-13
La migrazione come perdita e come guadagno, in “Servitium”, n.266, ottobre-dicembre 2024, pp. 65-71
Le conversioni all’islam e dall’islam, in “Servitium”, n.263, gennaio-marzo 2024
Seconde generazioni: i figli di immigrati nel limbo, in “Vita e Pensiero”, n. 5, 2023, pp. 54-57
Les musulmans en Italie face au Covid. L’alterité dans l’”Autre vie”, in Studi di Sociologia, n.3, 2023, pp. 235-247 (con Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali)
Dal monopolio cattolico al caleidoscopio impercepito. Immagini del pluralismo religioso in Italia, in Il Diritto Ecclesiastico, n. 1-2, 2023, pp. 27-35
What is a mosque for? in DAr Design Architecture Research, n. 3, 2023, pp. 9-17
A cosa serve una moschea? in DAr Design Architecture Research, n. 3, 2023, pp. 9-17
Minorenni, minoranze, minorati. I giovani adulti come (fallace) categoria interpretativa, in Nel raggio verde. Quaderni di studio su infanzia e adolescenza, n. 1, 2022, pp. 9-14
La sociologia può essere un genere letterario, in Vita e Pensiero, n. 5, 2022, pp. 122-127
Passato e presente della mobilità umana, in Vita e Pensiero, n. 1, 2022, pp. 53-57
La frustrazione delle seconde generazioni, in Neodemos.info, 22/07/2022 https://www.neodemos.info/2022/07/22/la-frustrazione-delle-seconde-generazioni/
Perfezione/Imperfezione, in Servitium, n. 248 (3), 2020, pp. 107-110
Immigrazione: una ragionevole proposta, in Servitium, n. 243 (3), 2019, pp. 57-64
Cultural and Religious Pluralism in Europe: Challenges and Perspectives, in Etudes Interculturelles, Chaire Unesco – Lyon, n. 11, 2017, pp. 67-78
Radicalismo islamico. Con il diario americano di Sayyid Qutb, in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 28 (4), 2017, pp. 521-522
Los islams europeos, in Vanguardia. Dossier: “El islam en Europa”, n. 56, jul-sept 2015, pp. 20-27
La morte declinata al plurale. Tra rimozione ed emozione: smascherare i tabù per ritrovare unsenso, in Studia Patavina, anno LXI, n. 2, 2014, pp. 293-313
The War over Mosques, in Seminar, n. 621, maggio 2011, http://www.indiaseminar.com/semsearch.htm
Life with citizen Islam, in The Financial World, 2011,
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws200611Islam.asp
L’islam en Europe devient-il européen?, in Afkar/Idées, n. 25, printemps 2010, pp.16-18
Immigration and Cultural Pluralism in Italy: Multiculturalism as a Missing Model, in Italian Culture, vol. XXVIII, n. 2, September 2010, pp. 85-103
Globalizzazione e culture della salute. Corpi migranti e società plurale (Globalization and Cultures of Health. Migrant Bodies and Plural Societies), in Africa e Mediterraneo. vol. 2 (64), 2008, pp. 8-13
Vittime collaterali. Intervista a Zygmunt Bauman (Collateral Victims. Interview with Zygmunt Bauman), in Aut Aut, n.333, gennaio-marzo 2007, pp.108-128
Western Europe and its Islam, in International Sociology, n.22, 2007, pp.197-200
La morte oggi (Death Today), in Servitium, III, n.171, maggio-giugno 2007, pp.33-44
I sociologi italiani e l’affaire Ramadan (Italian Sociologists and the ‘Ramadan affaire’), in Religioni e Società, XXI, n.56, settembre-dicembre 2006, pp.107-115
Conflicts, Cultures and Religions: Islam in Europe as a Sign and Symbol of Change in European Societies, in Yearbook on Sociology of Islam, n.3, 2006, pp.18-27
How and Why “Immigrants” became “Muslims“, in ISIM Review, n.18, autumn 2006, pp.37
Is Islam in Europe becoming European? An Open Question, in Africa e Mediterraneo, XIV, n.54, marzo 2006, pp.11-16
How the Immigrant has become Muslim. Public Debates on Islam in Europe, in Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 21, n. 2, 2005, pp.135-161
Seconda generazione, il nuovo volto dell’islam (Second generation, the new face of Islam), in Vita e Pensiero, n.3, LXXXVIII, giugno 2005, pp. 108-114
Musulmans d’Occident: les convertis, nouveaux protagonists de l’islam européen, in Cités, Hors Série (L’Islam en France), 2004, pp. 633-640
I musulmani in Italia: chi sono e come ci vedono (Muslims in Italy: Who are they and how they see us), in Limes, n. 3, 2004, pp. 97-107
La laicità imposta per legge (Secular thought enforced by law), in Vita e pensiero, VXXXVII, n. 2, marzo-aprile 2004, pp. 75-78
Religioni d’Italia. Fedi e forme di spiritualità in un’epoca di pluralismo (Italy’s Religions. Faiths and Forms of Spirituality in the Age of Pluralism), in Religioni e Società, n.47, 2003, pp.7-8 (con F. Garelli)
Konflikte um islamiche Symbole in Europa, in Journal für Konflikt und Gewaltforschung, n. 2 (vol. 5), 2003, pp. 6-31
Sociology of a Newcomer: Muslim Migration to Italy Religious Visibility, Cultural and Political Reactions, in Immigrants & Minorities, 22, n.2/3, 2003, pp. 141-154
Oublier Fallaci, renvoyer Sartori, in La Libre Belgique, 10 agosto 2002, p. 31 (with F. Dassetto)
Islam in Europa, Islam d’Europa, in Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, n.147, 2002, pp. 549-558
Islam and other Religions. Which Dialogue in Europe?, in Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, n.147, 2002, pp. 627-644
Converts and the Making of European Islam, in ISIM Newsletter, n. 11, 2002, pp.1 e 26
Islamofobia? Nuove forme di definizione e stigmatizzazione dell’alterità (Islamophobia? New forms of definition and stigmatization of diversity), in Razzismo & Modernità, n.2, 2002, pp. 3-30
La sociologia di fronte all’islam. Introduzione non bibliografica (Sociology facing Islam. A nonbibliographical Introduction), in Quaderni Asiatici, n. 58-59, luglio-dicembre 2001, pp. 33-69
L’anomalie italienne: trois droites et aucune gauche, in La Revue Nouvelle, n.6, 2001, pp. 18-31
Immigrazione islamica e conversioni all’islam. Una nuova dimensione dell’Europa delle religioni (Islamic Immigration and Conversions to Islam. A New Dimension of European Religions) , in Studi Emigrazione, n. 137, 2000, pp. 21-40
Immagini di un islam plurale. Dinamiche sociali e processi di istituzionalizzazione tra i musulmani italiani (Images of a Plural Islam. Social Dynamics and Processes of
Institutionalization among Italian Muslims), in Humanitas, n.6, 2000, pp.858-873
Il multiculturalismo alla prova. L’islam come attore sociale interno (Multiculturalism under Trial. Islam as an Internal Social Actor), in Sociologia e politiche sociali (numero monografico Multiculturalismo e politiche migratorie), n.3, 2000, pp.45-81
Dall’Islam ai musulmani. Fare ricerca su una religione ‘immigrata’ (From Islam to Muslims. Making Research on a ‘immigrant’ religion), in Sociologia Urbana e Rurale, n.58, 1999
L’islam d’Oriente (Oriental Islam), in Testimonianze, n.406, 1999, pp.54-63
Pluralismo religioso e società multietniche (Religious Pluralism and Multiethnic Societies), in Filosofia e Teologia, n.3, 1999, pp.433-455
Medine d’Europa. L’islam nelle città (Medinas of Europe. Islam in the cities), in Religioni e Società, n.35, 1999, pp.114-131
Pluralismo e dialogo interreligioso. Sfide e interrogativi dell’alterità (Pluralism and
Interreligious Dialogue. Challenges and questions on Otherness), in Orientamenti, n.1-2, 1998
Immigrazioni e fondamentalismi (Immigrations and Fundamentalisms), in Servitium, n.117, 1998
In search of a lost enemy. Fear of Islam in the West, in Rive, n.5, 1997 (ed. ingl.)
I matrimoni misti in Italia (Mixed marriages in Italy), in Famiglia Oggi, n.3, 1997
L’evidenza negata. Individuo e società di fronte alla morte (Denied Evidence. Individual and Society Facing Death), in Orientamenti, n.5-6, 1997
Doppio misto. Le coppie interetniche in Italia (Mixed Doubles. Interethnic couples in Italy), in Il Mulino, n.5, 1997
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Islam, occidente, problemi dell’immigrazione (Islam, the West and Immigration Problems), in Testimonianze, n.3 (383), 1996
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Un’intesa per l’islam italiano? (An Agreement for Italian Islam?), in Il Mulino, n.5, 1996, pp.985-998
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CURRICULUM VITAE
(discursive)
I am currently Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Padua. I have been elected as President of the master’s degree course (Corso di laurea magistrale) in “Sociology” at the University of Padua, with the mission to create a new and innovative teaching course: a task fulfilled with the creation of the master’s degree course in “Cultures, Education and Global Society”, that has started in the academic year 2014-15, in collaboration with the former Faculty of Education. In 2020 I designed the project of creation of a new master’s degree course in “Cultural Pluralism, Social Change and Migrations”, of which I have been elected President in 2021.
I graduated at the University of Milan, Faculty of Political Sciences, in 1992, and I got a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research, at the University of Trento in 1997, with a dissertation on “Conversions to Islam”, based on a three years qualitative research, at the European level. The dissertation has become a book, published in French in 1998 and in Italian in 1999, for which I won two award prizes in 2000: the special prize of the prestigious “Premio Pozzale Luigi Russo” (won by important Italian intellectuals, such as Norberto Bobbio, Carlo Ginzburg, Remo Bodei, Franco Fortini, Roberto Saviano) and the “Premio Feudo di Maida” (in the same
year, the winner of another section of the prize has been Ryszard Kapuściński).
Since 2001 I am researcher, since 2004 I am Associate Professor and since 2019 I am full Professor of Sociology at the University of Padua, where I teach “Sociology” and “Social Pluralism and Cultural Conflic” (previously “Globalization and cultural pluralism”, previously “Communication and interculturality”). I also teach in several postgraduate courses, such as Masters and Ph.D. courses. The evaluations of my courses made by the students are always at the level “High”.
I am also in the board of the Doctorate School in “Religion, Culture and Public Life” at the University of Padua, and I have guided B.A., M.A, Ph.D. and foreign student’s thesis.
My main research interests, during the last 20 years, have been Islam in the West, religious pluralism, immigration, multiculturalism and related issues: Muslims in Europe, the role of media and communication, the political use of Islam and Islamophobia, the construction of reciprocal images and imaginaries, religious conversions, the establishing of religious-based networks, the production and dissemination of Islamic knowledge, mixed couples, family ties, interreligious and social dialogue, conflicts about mosques, identity formation, political and
cultural pluralism, body and health representations, and many others.
I have published extensively in different languages: mainly in English and
Italian, but also French and other languages. Two of my books have been
translated respectively in Arabic (Al-Islâm al-Itâlî. Rihla(t) fî waqâ’i’ aldiyâna al-thâniya), and Turkish (Avrupa’da Müslüman Öznenin Üretimi:
Fikirler, Bilinçler, Örnekler).
I have written consistently also on migration issues, cultural pluralism, sociology of culture, communication issues, sociology of health and death, contributions to the diffusion of sociological thought (my interview to Zygmunt Bauman has been published in the philosophical review Aut-Aut; I have re-interviewed Bauman publicly at the House of Parliament in Rome, October 22nd 2013), and other
topics. Among others, on political parties and movements, I published a book on the Lega Nord party in its early history and at the beginning of my academic career (Le parole della Lega, Milano, Garzanti, 1992). A book on the Democratic Party has been published in October 2013 (Chi ha ucciso il PD, Milano, Mimesis).
I have strong research network and ties with scholars of various countries.
I am among the founders and organizers, at the University of Padua, of the Master on “Studies on Islam of Europe”, and I am in the scientific committee and among the organizers of a training course project for imams and Muslim activists, organized since 2010 by the FIDR, an Italian interuniversity centre on democracy and religion, with the patronage of the Ministry of Interiors of the Italian Government. I am also member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the
“Yearbook on the Sociology of Islam”, of the review “Religioni e Società”, of the scientific committee of the review “Africa e Mediterraneo”. I am also associated member of the CISMOC/CISCOW (Centre pour l’étude de l’islam dans le monde contemporain/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Islam in the Contemporary World) of the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, of the research
group on Islam and modernity (GRIM) at the University of Padua, and among the members of Eurislam. I directed the collection “Orienti” for the publisher “Città Aperta”, and I am member of the scientific committee of the cultural Festival “Vicino/Lontano” (“Close/Far”) in Udine.
Between 2001 and 2007 I have been the secretary of the Italian Association of Sociologists of Religion.
I have been member of the International Association of Sociologists of Religion, and I am member of the Sociology of Islam network.
Before entering the academia, I have been a professional journalist. Subsequently I have worked for closely a decade, between 1982 and 1991, for the CISL trade union, in Milan, as the person in charge of the first migrant’s bureau, and then, since 1984, of the international bureau. I have also been coordinator, in that period, of a newly created Observatory on military industry (to study ways of reconversion of this industry). In the meantime I was editor in chief of the theoretical review Prospettiva sindacale (Trade Union Perspectives). I have also co-directed, in the following years, the review Orientamenti. Before this experience, in 1982-1983, I have been working for the ACRA NGO, devoted to rural development in Africa.
I have always in mind the broader frame of public policies of which the academic and research activity is part of. For this reason I devoted several studies to political sociology and I am asked to intervene in public debates, through editorials in newspapers, and through social networks.
I have participated in many international research projects, some of which I have directed as Principal Investigator.
I have strong research networks and ties with scholars of European and Arab countries, and I have delivered lectures in hundreds of conferences, symposiums, seminars.