Alessandra Fiorentini
Laureate of the 2022 Louis Dumont Fund
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Published at 20 July 2022
After an initial training at the Pontifical Institute of Arab Studies and Islamology (PISAI) in Rome where she specialized in the analysis of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, Alessandra Fiorentini trained in social anthropology at the EHESS, with a particular interest in the anthropology of Islam and issues of religion, gender and power. His research method unites a long-term ethnographic work complemented by historical research on written and oral sources. After extensive ground in the Middle East and Central Asia, it has begun a new comparative field in West Africa, particularly in Niger.
The Tahajara of the Khalwatiyya among the Tuaregs of Aïr. Between the preservation of traditional Islam and politico-religious resistance in Niger.
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