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Raoul Villano

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Raoul Villano, PhD in Islamic Civilization, History and Philology (Sapienza University of Rome) is associate professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Roma Tre University. His research interests include Qurʾānic studies, the formation of the Arabic written and scholarly tradition, the transmission of knowledge in early Islamicate societies, Arabic philology and lexicography, as well as Digital Humanities and Arabic Natural Language Processing. He is editor of Language & History (Taylor & Francis) and of the International Journal of Arabic Linguistics (IMIST). He has published a monograph on the Qurʾān (La struttura binaria del Corano, Rome, 2018), he is currently editing a special issue of Language & History on “Formal Models in the History of Arabic Linguistic Tradition”, and co-editing (with G. Lancioni and M. E. B. Giolfo) the sixth volume of the Brill series The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics.

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