Q&A 17 marzo 2016 - Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica
Alba Fedeli is a research fellow at the Centre of Religious Studies at CEU in Budapest, where she is working on a research project on the transmission of early Qur’ānic manuscripts by applying phylogenetics. She is academic assistant at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan (Arabic Studies section) and honorary research fellow of the Institute of Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham (UK) where she obtained a PhD degree in Theology and Religion with a dissertation on the Qur’ānic manuscripts of the Mingana Collection, using the tools of digital philology funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. During her PhD research, she worked on the so-called Birmingham Qur’ān and the Mingana-Lewis palimpsest.