Giuseppe Brocato

Junior Research fellow

Education, academic and professional experience

He currently serves as editorial assistant for the journal Palermo Occasional Papers (PaOP).

In October 2024, he completed his PhD at the Alta Scuola Europea di Scienze Religiose “Giuseppe Alberigo” with a dissertation entitled Protection from Calamities: A Study of Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī’s al-ʿAwāṣim min al-qawāṣim (supervisor: Prof. Frank Griffel).

From August 2022 to July 2023, he was a Visiting Assistant in Research (VAR) at Yale University, Department of Religious Studies, under the supervision of Prof. Frank Griffel.

In March 2019, he obtained a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Palermo with a thesis in Islamic philosophy entitled Suhrawardī e la metafisica della luce (supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Roccaro; co-supervisor: Prof. Rosa Maria Lupo).

In October 2016, he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and historical studies at the University of Palermo, presenting a thesis on Leibniz’s philosophy entitled La nozione di monade in Leibniz: uno specchio dell’essere umano e della sua esistenza (supervisor: Prof. Sandro Mancini).

Conferences, seminars and workshops

Novembre 15, 2025, paper: Wrestling in Translation: Sūrat Yūsuf (Q.12) and the Case-Word Aḥāḥdīṯ; panel: Q. 12 Revisited: Hermeneutics, History, and Computation in the Story of Joseph, IQSA International Conference 2025, Los Angeles (CA).

September 9–14, 2024, 31st Conference of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (EUAI), Granada (ES).

May 20–23, 2024, paper: Between Ibn Tūmart and Ibn Ḥazm: The Third Position of Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī’s al-ʿAwāṣim min al-qawāṣim; panel: Theory and Transmission of Knowledge (ʿilm) in the History of Islamic Thought.
VII International Congress of the European Academy of Religion 2024, Palermo.

March 13, 2024, seminar on the history and development of Islamic theology, from its origins to al-Ġazālī, within the Master’s degree course “Religioni e Culture” (LM64), University of Palermo, Palermo.

January 28–29, 2022, International Conference Le Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (m. 543/1148): Parcours, héritage et transmission, Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat (MA).