Francesco Gabrieli

Francesco Gabrieli

Francesco Gabrieli (born April 27, 1904 in Rome , Italy ; † December 13, 1996 there ) was an Italian Arabist and Orientalist .

Life

Francesco Gabrieli was born on the top floor of the Roman Palazzo Corsini , the seat of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , in the official apartment of his father, who was a librarian at the Accademia. He learned the Arabic language from his father and then went to La Sapienza University in Rome, where he studied with the orientalist Carlo Alfonso Nallino . At the same time he learned both the Persian and Turkish languages , besides he also spoke perfect French , German , English and Russian .

After Gabrieli first turned to the Middle Ages as a field of study, he dealt with the poets of the early Islamic period. Other work included, for example, the military leader Maslama Ibn ʾAbd al-Malik under the Umayyad ruler Hisham Ibn ʾAbd al-Malik or the two brothers, the Abbassid caliphs al-Amin and al-Ma'mun . His translations of the Arabic sources from the time of the Crusades opened up new insights into the history of this time.

Gabrieli was a professor at the University of Palermo , at the University of Naples L'Orientale and then until his retirement at the La Sapienza University in Rome. He worked on the Enciclopedia Italiana , or Treccani for short , with and was responsible for the second edition of The Encyclopedia of Islam. New Edition , which was published in Leiden and Paris. Gabrieli was also a member and temporarily president of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei .

Prizes and awards

• 1955: Antonio Feltrinelli Prize
• 1983: Balzan Prize

Publications

Arabic history and literature

• Al-Maʾmūn e gli Alidi . E. Pfeiffer, Leipzig 1929.
• Viaggi di Sindibad , Sansoni, Florence 1943.
• (Ed., Transl.): Alfarabius, compendium legum Platonis. 1952 (Volume 3 by Plato Arabus , ed. Richard Walzer ).
• Dal mondo dell'Islam , 1954
• Storici arabi delle Crociate , 1957.
  • German: The Crusades from an Arab perspective. Selected from Arabic sources and translated by Francesco Gabrieli. Translated into German by Barbara von Kaltenborn-Stachau and Lutz Richter-Bernburg . Bechtermünz, Augsburg 2006, ISBN 3-8289-0371-1 (1st edition 1973).
• Gli Arabi . Sansoni, Florence 1958.
  • History of the Arabs . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1963, DNB 451417089 .
• Il risorgimento arabo , 1958.
  • German: The Arab Revolution. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1961, DNB 451417097 .
• Saggi orientali . 1960.
• Mohammad e le grandi conquiste arabiche , Il Saggiatore, Milan 1967.
  • Mohammed and the Arab World , Kindler, Munich 1968.
• Tra Mimnermo e Solone . Pagine stravaganti di un arabista . 1968.
• Arabeshi e studi islamici . Guida, Napoli 1973.
• Maometto in Europe
  • as editor: Mohammed in Europe: 1300 years of history, art, culture. List, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-471-77633-8 (contributions by C. Lo Jacono, GE Carretto, A. Ventura).
• Cultura araba del Novecento. (Arab Culture of the 10th Century), 1983.
• Francesco Gabrieli, Heiko Steuer and others: Carlomagno e Mahomette .
  • German: Mohammed and Charlemagne. Belser Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-7630-2097-7 .

Travel reports and other things

• Escursioni . 1958.
• Abozzi e profili . 1960.
• Uomini e paesaggi del Sud . R. Ricciardi, Milan 1960.
• L'arabista petulante . R. Ricciardi, Milan 1972.

Web links

• Biography of the orientalist