Serena Tolino

Serena Tolino (born February 12, 1983 in Rome ) is an Italian scholar of Islam .

Life

She studied L'Orientale languages, history and cultures of the Mediterranean and Islamic countries at the University of Naples . During her studies she spent three years in Cairo . She then had a scholarship at the Graduate School Society and Culture in Movement at Martin Luther University , where she worked in 2012 as part of a co-tutelle with the University of Naples L'Orientale on the subject of homosexuality and homosexual practices in Islamic and positive law in Egypt PhD . After completing her doctorate, she worked at the University of Zurich as an assistant in an SNSF research project. In the 2013/2014 winter semester she was a Fellow in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard University . From 2016 to 2020 she was junior professor for Islamic Studies in Hamburg . In 2017 she acquired the certificate for university didactics at the Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning. She has been Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in Bern since 2020 .

Her main research interests are Islamic law, LGBTQI, gender and sexuality in Islamic countries, and the history of slavery in the Middle East.

Fonts (selection)

• Atti omosessuali e omosessualità fra diritto islamico e diritto positivo. Il caso egiziano con alcuni cenni all'esperienza lebanese . Naples 2013, ISBN 978-88-495-2387-4 .
• as editor with Almut Höfert and Matthew M. Mesley: Celibate and childless men in power. Ruling eunuchs and bishops in the pre-modern world . London 2018, ISBN 978-1-4724-5340-2 .

Web links

• islamwissenschaft.unibe.ch
• unibe-ch.academia.edu