Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti

Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti (26 November 1938, in Aosta – 19 September 2020, in Rome) was an Italian researcher and Islamologist. She specialized in the history of medieval Islam, particularly in the relations between religion and politics. The scholar was also interested in Shia Islam and issues related to female expressiveness and representation in this history. Biography Biancamaria Amoretti was born on 26 November 1938, in Aosta. She earned her doctorate in 1963 from the University of Naples - L'Orientale with a dissertation titled Hagiography, Popular Devotion, and Pilgrimages Dedicated to the Eighth Imam, ʿAlī al-Riḍā. Throughout her research and travels, the historian described herself as a feminist and wrote about the condition of women in the Muslim world.

She married Gianroberto Scarcia, one of her fellow Islamologists.

She died in Rome on 19 September 2020. The journal DWF paid tribute to her.