Biographie
Dr. Viola Allegranzi holds a BA and a MA in Islamic and Iranian studies from the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. In 2017, she received a joint Ph.D. from the Universities Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 and “L’Orientale”, with a dissertation focusing on the Persian inscriptions from Ghazni (Afghanistan) and the cultural history of the Ghaznavid period (11th-12th c.). From 2017 to 2019, she was a teaching and research fellow at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle and at the research unit Mondes iranien et indien (CNRS, Paris). In 2020 she started a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences where she is currently working on the stand-alone project "Inscribing Authority: Islamic Rule in Central Asia (10th-13th Centuries) as Reflected in Monumental Epigraphy", funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, ESPRIT).
Viola Allegranzi is a research member of the Islamic Ghazni archaeological project (“L’Orientale”, Gerda Henkel Stiftung).
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Cultural and social history of premodern Iran
- Material culture of Iran and Central Asia (architectural decoration, epigraphy)
- Arabic and Persian inscriptions on monuments and objects
Laufende Projekte
Laufende Projekte
- Inscribing Authority: Islamic Rule in Central Asia (10th-13th Centuries) as Reflected in Monumental Epigraphy
- A carved history. Reappraising material culture from early Islamic Iran
- Islamic Ghazni: https://ghazni.bdus.cloud/
- CallFront - Research on Calligraphic Scripts from the Frontier Regions of the Islamic World https://callfront.hypotheses.org/
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Ausgewählte Publikationen
- [with S. Aube] “Stucco fragments from the Abbasid Mosque in Afrasiab/Samarkand: New Investigation into a Neglected Corpus”. In: R. P. McClary (ed.), Stucco in the Islamic World. Studies of Architectural Ornament from Spain to India. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025, p. 86-109.
- “L’épigraphie islamique en Asie Centrale : état de l’art et nouvelles pistes de recherche”. In : F. Bauden, Ch. Genequand and L. Kalus (eds.), L’épigraphie arabe/islamique un siècle après la mort de Max van Berchem: bilan et perspectives. Louvain-Paris-Bristol (CT): Peeters, 2024, p. 61-87.
- “Multilingualism in the Epigraphic Culture of the Persianate World (Eleventh to Thirteenth Century)”. In: S. Sövegjártó and M. Vér (eds.), Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in Written Artefacts, Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, p. 347-370, 2024, OA: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111380544-013
- [with A. Fusaro] “A Treasure of Lustrewares from Ghazni (Afghanistan, mid-12th – early 13th century)”, Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli "L’Orientale". Sezione orientale 83, 2023, p. 61-98.
- “New Epigraphic Data from a Ghurid Monument in Chisht-i Sharif: Expressing Power and Piety in 12th century Afghanistan”. In: B. O’Kane A. C. S. Peacock and M. Muehlhaeusler (eds.), Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023, p. 81-111.
- “The Medieval Urbanism of Ghazni (Afghanistan, 10th-12th Centuries). A Cross-reading of Textual and Material Evidence”, Afghanistan 4/1, 2021, p. 1-18. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/afg.2021.0061
- V. Allegranzi, V. Laviola (eds.), Texts and contexts. Ongoing Researches on the Eastern Iranian World (Tenth-Fifteen C.). Roma: Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino (Pubblicazioni dell’IPOCAN, Nr. 120), 2020.
- Aux sources de la poésie ghaznavide. Les inscriptions persanes de Ghazni (Afghanistan, XIe‑XIIe s.). Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2019.
- "Les inscriptions persanes du tombeau dʼAbū Jaʿfar Moḥammad, Ghazni (Afghanistan), début du VIe/XIIe siècle. La poésie comme lieu de mémoire et d’histoire". Studia Iranica 47, 2018, p. 89‑118.