Dr. Margherita Picchi

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsIslamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
KeywordsIslamic feminism, Communitarian exegesis, South Africa, Qur'anic exegesis (Tafsir), Islamic sermon (Khutba)

Current contact address

CountryItaly
CityRoma
InstitutionUniversita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Johanna PinkLehrstuhl für Islamwissenschaft und Geschichte des Islam, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2022

Programme(s)

2021Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2024Margherita Picchi: Khutba Activism against Gender-Based Violence: the Claremont Main Road Mosque's community tafsir. In: Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske and Aydın Süer, Practices of Islamic Preaching: Text, Performativity, and Materiality of Islamic Religious Speech. De Gruyter, 2024. 77-102
2024Margherita Picchi: Reading Sayyid Qutb in Cape Town: Traveling Theory in (post-Apartheid) South Africa. In: Carlo De Angelo and Marco Di Donato, Philosophy, History, and Political Thought in Islam: Essays in Memory of Prof. Massimo Campanini. Gorgias Press, 2024. 271-310
2024Margherita Picchi: Shifting Sands: Public Discourses on Sexual Violence in the South African Muslim Community. In: Samah Choudhury, Juliane Hammer Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities: Toward Awareness and Accountability. Boston University Open library, 2024. 168-186