Name
SPEZIALE, Fabrizio
Position and Affiliated Institution
Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Degree
Ph.D.
Education and Academic Employment
- 2017 to present, Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre for South Asian Studies, Paris.
- 2010-2017, Associate Professor, University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Department of Arabic, Hebrew, Indian and Iranian Studies, Paris.
- 2010-2015, CNRS Excellence Chair in Iranian Studies, University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Research Center ‘Mondes iranien et indien’, Paris.
- 2009-2010, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Heidelberg, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg.
- 2002, Ph.D. in Social and Historical Anthropology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
- 1998-2000, Ph.D. Fellow, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi.
Research Topic
History of Sciences in South Asia
Fields of Research Interests
South Asian Studies
Persian Studies
History of Sciences
Academic Publications
- Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud, Leiden – Boston, E. J. Brill, 2018.
- “A 14th Century Revision of the Avicennian and Ayurvedic Humoral Pathology: The Hybrid Model by Šihāb al-Dīn Nāgawrī”, Oriens, 42, 3-4, 2014, pp. 514-532.
- “The Persian translation of the tridoṣa: Lexical analogies and conceptual incongruities”, Asiatische Studien, 68, 3, 2014, pp. 783-796.
- (ed.) Muslim Cultures in the Indo-Iranian World during the Early-Modern and Modern Periods, Berlin, Klaus Schwarz – Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 2010, (with Denis Hermann).
- Soufisme, religion et médecine en Islam indien. Paris, Editions Karthala, 2010.
Affiliated Academic Organizations
Société Asiatique, Paris.
Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, Rome.
Honorary Fellow, The Shi‘ah Institute, London.
International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine, Doha.
Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens.
Awards
- Principal investigator, “Perso-Indica: the Persanisation of Indian Learning (13th-19th centuries)”, Franco-German Program in Social Sciences and Humanities, French National Research Agency (ANR) – German Research Foundation (DFG), 2014- 2018.
- Visiting Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2016.
- Mellon Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 2016.
- Visiting Research Fellow, The Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2015.
- Visiting Professor, McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies, Montreal, 2014.
Other Interests
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