Dr. Luca Rizzo

seit 06.2025 ­

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (PostDoc), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Seminar für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, HiMuJeExterner Link „Hindu-Muslim-Jewish Origin Legends in Circulation between the Malabar Coast and the Mediterranean, 1400s–1800s“

10.2019 – 06.2024

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (PostDoc), Universität Münster, Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Sonderforschungsbereiche 1385Externer Link – Recht und Literatur „Kanonisierung und Diversifizierung im islamischen Recht und in der arabischen Rhetorik im Vergleich“

09.2015 – 07.2020

PhD in Asian and African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice im cotutèle mit Universität Münster

09.2011 – 06.2014

Master in Language and civilisation of Asia and mediterranean Africa, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

09.2006 – 11.2009

Bachelor’s in foreign Languages, Art, History and Civilisation, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Monografien

• Rizzo, Luca (2022): New Perspectives on Tawriya: Theory and Practice of Ambiguity, Baden-Baden: Ergon, doi.org/10.5771/9783987400001, ISBN print 978-3-95650-999-5, ISBN online 978-3-98740-000-1.

Herausgegebene Sammelbände / Zeitschriften

• Arslan, Hakki / Kramp-Seidel, Nicola / Rizzo, Luca (Hrsg.) (2024): Intertextuality, Transtextuality, and Rewriting in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic Literary and Legal Traditions, Sonderausgabe von Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, 78:3, https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/asia/78/3/html, ISSN: 2235-5871.
• De Sanctis, Carlotta / Magnani, Arianna / Rizzo, Luca / Sanvido, Marta / Tommasi, Pier Carlo (Hrsg.) (2018): Texts in Between Action and Non-Action: Genesis, Strategies, and Outcomes of Textual Agency, Sonderausgabe von Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie Orientale, 54 supplemento, http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2018/02, e-ISSN 2385-3042.

Beiträge in peer-reviewed Zeitschriften

• Rizzo, Luca, (2024): “The Use of Islamic Legal Discourse in Literature: How Did Premodern Arab Critics Classify and Analyze Legal Intertextuality?”, in Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, 78:3, 469-508, https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2023-0023, ISSN 2235-5871.
• Kramp-Seidel, Nicola and Rizzo, Luca (2024): “Intertextuality, Transtextuality, and Rewriting in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic Literary and Legal Traditions: Editorial”, in Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, 78:3, 419-430, https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2024-0023, ISSN 2235-5871.
• Rizzo, Luca (2021): “On the morphology of the word tawriya according to al-Ṣafadī (d. 764/1363): Between Baṣrans and Kūfans”, in Kervan – International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies, 25:1, 31-50, https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/5891, ISSN 1825-263X.
• Rizzo, Luca (2018): “The Narrative Structure of Ambiguity: A Semiotic Analysis of a Tawriya-Epigram by Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār (d. 794/1392)”, in Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie Orientale, 54 supplemento, 537-574, http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2018/01/025, e-ISSN 2385-3042.

Beiträge in Sammelbänden

• Rizzo, Luca (2024): “Scheda biografica – Ibn Nubāta, tra encomi e corrispondenza”, in Francesca Maria Corrao / Monica Ruocco (Hrsg.), La letteratura araba. Dall’epoca preislamica all’età postclassica, Milano: Le Monnier Università, 331, ISBN 978-88-00-86250-9.

Rezensionen

• Rizzo, Luca (2018): “Review of Adam TALIB, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018, xii, 337 p.”, in Quaderni di Studi Arabi nuova serie, 13, 238-239, ISSN 1121-2306.

• “How to make ambiguous what is not: the case of Q. 51:47”, Studies of Arabic Language, Literature and Rhetoric in the 8/14th Century, Marmara University Faculty of Theology, 6-7.12.2024.
• “Mocking Authority in Medieval Arabic Anecdotal Literature”, “Dynamics between Power and Society in Islam” 31st Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Universidad de Granada, 9-14.09.2024.
• “Soluzioni retoriche ad alcune ambiguità coraniche”, Giornata di studi interdipartimentale “La lingua del sacro nelle tradizioni semitiche”, Università degli Studi di Torino, 14.05.2024.
• “Wise and Stupid Judges in two Works by Ibn al-Ǧawzī (d. 597/1200)”, Lachen und Kritik: Parodien in jüdischen, islamischen und christlichen Kontexten, University of Münster, 23-24.10.2023.
• “Ambiguity as a Hermeneutic Device in Koranic Exegesis and as a Productive Device in Literary Practice”, Zum Verhältnis zwischen den Hermeneutiken des Rechts und der Literatur, University of Münster, 22-23.03.2021.
• “Iqtibās and Tawriya: How to Manipulate a Narrative World”, Conflict and Coexistence 29th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, University of Münster, 09-13.09.2018.
• “Tawriya and Semiotics: a New Perspective of Analysis”, Eurasian Connections, University of Heidelberg, 24-25.05.2018.
• “A Walk in Ibn Ḥiǧǧa’s Tawriya-Epigrams”, The Racecourse of Literature. An-Nawāǧī and His Contemporaries. International Conference of the Leibnizpreis-Research-Unit Arabische Literatur und Rhetorik Elfhundert bis Achtzehnhundert (ALEA), University of Münster, 03-04.05.2018.
• “La struttura narratologica dell’ambiguità: una prima analisi semiotica della tawriya in alcuni epigrammi arabi di epoca mamelucca (1250-1517)”, Inerzia e Solerzia del Testo. Genesi, Mezzi, Esiti dell’Agire Testuale, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, 04-05.12.2017.

• AOS – American Oriental Society
• DMG – Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
• ISHR – International Society for the History of Rhetoric
• MEM – Middle East Medievalists
• MESA – Middle East Studies Association
• SeSaMo – Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente
• UEAI – Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants