Prof. Marco Di Branco

Marco Di Branco is Associate Professor of “Religious History of Islam” at Sapienza University of Rome. He received advanced training in Byzantine Epigraphy at the Italian Archaeological School of Athens and later earned a diploma in Arabic Language and Culture from IsIAO. He has held fellowships at the Italian Institute for Human Sciences in Florence, the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University (as Visiting Fellow), the German Historical Institute in Rome, and the American University of Beirut (Marie Curie Fellow). He has taught Byzantine Civilization and Byzantine Archaeology at the University of Milan, the University of Basilicata, and the School of Specialization in Archaeology of Matera. His research focuses on Late Antique Athens, Muslim presence in early medieval Italy, and Islamic perspectives on Greco-Roman history. His publications include the annotated edition of the Kitāb Hurūšiyūš, the Arabic translation of Historiae adversus paganos by Paulus Orosius, which was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 in the Translation category.