Dr. Danilo Marino

Assoziierter Forschender

E-Mail
danilo.marino@faculty.unibe.ch
Postadresse
Universität Bern
Departement für Sozialanthropologie und Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien
Fachbereich Mittlerer Osten und muslimische Gesellschaften
Lerchenweg 36
3012 Bern
Schweiz

Akademischer Werdegang

12.01–21.01.2025 – Course on “Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL)”, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC)      

02.2023–present – Associated researcher, SACS Unit for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies, University of Bern

2018-2019 – Post-Doc Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin. Project title: Murūʾa and Masculinity in the Mamlūk Period (1252-1517)

29th of May 2015 – Ph.D, joint doctoral program PhD in Comparative Literature (Letterature Comparate) from the University of Naples “L'Orientale” (Università degli studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”), Italy, supervised by Professor Francesca Maria Corrao and Ph.D in Languages, literatures and societies (Langues, littératures et sociétés) from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales - INALCO) of Paris, France, supervised by Professor Aboubakr Chraïbi. Thesis Title: Raconter le haschich dans l'époque mamelouke. Étude et édition critique partielle de la Rāḥat al-arwāḥ fī l-ḥašīš wa-l-rāḥ de Taqī al-Dīn Abū l-Tuqā al-Badrī (847-894/1443-1489). [Stories of Hashish Eaters in the Mamlūk Period. A Study and A Partial Critical Edition of the Rāḥat al-arwāḥ fī l-ḥašīš wa-l-rāḥ of Taqī al-Dīn Abū l-Tuqā al-Badrī (847-894/1443-1489)], which can be consulted at https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01368946. Grade: Very honorable with jury congratulations (très honorable avec félicitations du jury - ottimo).

2006–2009 – MA with honors in Comparative Literatures and Civilizations (Letterature e culture comparate) from the University of Naples “L'Orientale” (Università degli studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”), Italy, supervised by Professor Francesca Maria Corrao. Dissertation title: “An Analysis of the Structure and Themes of the Andalusī muwaššaḥāt and kharğāt” (Analisi formale e tematica delle muwaššaḥāt e delle kharğāt andaluse).

Modules studied: Arabic and French Language, Arabic and French Classical and Modern Literature, Comparative Literature, Romance Philology, Linguistics.

2002–2006 – BA with honors in Mediterranean Studies (Lingue, culture e istituzioni dei paesi del Mediterraneo) from the University of Naples “L'Orientale” (Università degli studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”), Italy.

Modules studied: Arabic and French Language and Literature, English Language, Modern and Contemporary European Art, Modern European History, Islamic Art and Archeology, Islamology, Linguistics, Post-colonial and Cultural Studies, Geography.


 

Forschungsinteressen

My research interests are on the history of emotions in premodern Arabic context, gender and masculinities studies, premodern Islamic Ethics, Arabic Literature and Poetry from the Mamlūk period (1250-1517) and the literature of intoxication.

Laufende Forschungsprojekte

My current research focuses on the history of anger(s) in premodern Arabic and Islamic tradition and on gender and emotions.

Publikationen

  • “Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī (d. 964/1567) On the Legal Debates on Intoxication and the Senses”, in Christian Lange, Suzanne Compagnon, Gianni Sievers, and Yusuf Ünal (eds), Islamic Sensory History 1500-2000, Volume 3, Brill, Leiden 2025 (forthcoming).
  • “Le haschich dans l’Islam médiéval. Une histoire de l’ivresse entre médecine, loi et littérature”, Histoire, médecine et santé 26 (2024), pp. 19-35.
  • “Al-Badrī (d. 894/1488) on hashish and the senses”, in Christian Lange and Adam Bursi (eds), Islamic Sensory History 600-1500, Volume 2, Brill, Leiden 2024, pp. 184-189.
  • “Shame and Murūʾa in Medieval Islam”, in Ayang Utriza Yakin, Adis Duderija and An Van Raemdonck (eds), Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam: Reinterpretations, Reconceptualizations, and Redefinition in Modern World, Bloomsbury, London 2024, pp. 23-36.
  • “Nāṣir Aḥmad b. Nāṣir Muḥammad (Mamlūk)”, in The Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE, Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson (eds), 2023.
  • “Intoxicants, Islamic World”, in The Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online (RMEO), Routledge Online 2022.
  • “Crossing the Boundaries: Hashish Intoxication in Pre-modern Arabic Literature and Law”, Quaderni di Studi Arabi 17 (2022), pp. 99-121.
  • “Muhammad Salah or the Aesthetic of Ordinary Middle East Masculinities”, Almanach. Magazin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische Kulturen (SGMOIK) (2021), pp. 9-13,
  • “Contesting Masculinity in Pre-Modern Arab Societies. Intoxication, Desire and Antinomian Mysticism”, in Aymon Kreil, Lucia Sorbera and Serena Tolino (eds.), Sexual Norms in the Arab World. Desire and Transgression in Islamic Cultures, I. B. Tauris, London 2021, pp. 69-86.
  • “Le plaisir de l'ivresse. Haschich et littérature homoérotique dans l'époque mamelouke”, in Frédéric Lagrange and Claire Savina (eds.), Words of Desire: The Language of Arabic Erotica and its Translations, Diacritiques Editions, Paris 2020, pp. 288-325.
  • “Hashish and Food: Arabic and European Medieval Dreams of Edible Paradises”, in Kirill Dmitriev, Julia Hauser and Bilal Orfali (eds.), Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyong, Brill, Leiden 2019, pp. 190-213.
  • “L’humour dans l'Égypte mamelouke. Le Nuzhat al-nufūs wa-muḍḥik al-ʿabūs d'Ibn Sūdūn al-Bašbuġāwī”, in Maurus Reinkowski, Monika Winet and Sevinç Yasargil (eds.), Arabic and Islamic Studies in Europe and Beyond - Études arabes et islamiques en Europe et au-delà, Proceedings of the 26th Congress of Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI), Basel 2012, Peeters, Leuven-Paris-Bristol, 2016, pp. 143-155.
  • “Il Corano nella letteratura araba premoderna: inimitabilità, citazione, influenza e trasformazione. Qualche osservazione sulla letteratura umoristica”, Studium 4 (2016), pp. 494-529.
  • “Raconter l’ivresse à l’époque mamelouke. Les mangeurs de haschich comme motif littéraire”, Annales Islamologiques 49 (2015), pp. 55-80.
  • “Il Cairo, tra realismo e allegoria nella narrativa di Nağīb Maḥfūẓ e ʿAlāʾ al-Aswānī”, in Stefania De Lucia, Carmen Gallo and Danilo Marino (eds.), Landscapes and Mindscapes. Metodologie di ricerca, percorsi geo-centrati e poetiche dello spazio in una prospettiva comparata, Marchesi Editore, Napoli 2014, pp. 35-50.
  • “Le forme della censura religiosa nell’Egitto moderno. Il caso di Awlād Ḥāratinā (1959) di Nağīb Maḥfūẓ (1911-2006)”, Between 2, no. 3 (2012), http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/384/393.