Laura Veccia Vaglieri was an Italian

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 orientalist

Oriental studies

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A pioneer of Arab

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ic and Islam

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ic studies in Italy, Veccia Vaglieri served as professor at the Naples Eastern University

Naples Eastern University

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 and was the author of books on the historical and institutional analysis of the Arab and Muslim world. Her works include

1. A textbook on the grammar of the Arabic language
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    (Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba (Istituto per l'Oriente, Rome, 1937, 2 voll.))
2. Apologia dell’ Islamismo (Rome, A. F. Formiggini, 1925). An Interpretation of Islam. Zurich: Islamic Foundation. Translated from Italian by Dr. Aldo Caselli, Haverford College, Pennsylvania. 1980.
3. A synthesis on the classical Islam (L'Islam da Maometto al secolo XVI, in: Storia Universale (dir. Ernesto Pontieri), Milan, F. Vallardi, 1963))

and a number of articles on the early Islam. She also contributed several articles to the Encyclopaedia of Islam

Encyclopaedia of Islam

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