#  Topics in the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Mental Disorder and the Body 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 6, 2014** 

 12:00PM - 02:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

**The CMES Director's Series** is pleased to present

**Nicola Carpentieri**  
Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK

   ![Nicola Carpentieri](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/cmes/files/nicola-carpentieri.png?itok=UaugbM4J) 

 

Nicola Carpentieri is a research associate, responsible for transcribing and collating the commentaries. His academic interests include the transmission of knowledge between the Hellenic and the Arabo-Islamic intellectual traditions, literary hybridisation in the Muslim West (Iberia, Sicily and the Maghreb), medieval court poetry and the post-Classical qasida. Nicola graduated summa cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, in 2003. He obtained his PhD in Arabic & Islamic Studies in 2012 from Harvard University. The title of his PhD thesis is *The Poetics of Aging: Al-Andalus and Sicily at the Twilight of Muslim Sovereignty*. At Harvard, Nicola's research focused on the intellectual history of Sicilian and Iberian Islam, particularly within the domain of court poetry. He is currently working on a thematic anthology of the Sicilian Arab poet Ibn Hamdis.

**Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ History ](/research-field/history)
- [ Public Health ](/research-field/public-health)
- [ 2014-15 ](/academic-year/2014-15)
 
 

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