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    Giorgio Levi Della Vida (22 August 1886 in Venice – 25 November 1967 in Rome) was an Italian Jewish linguist whose expertise lay in Hebrew, Arabic, and...
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    various periods over the last two centuries, and were catalogued by Giorgio Levi Della Vida. A subset of the inscriptions feature in all the major corpuses...
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  • general, the Banuʾl-Aṣfar ("sons of the yellow one"). Alternatively, Giorgio Levi Della Vida interprets it as "Bronze Era", with ṣufr corresponding to Latin...
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    of the "Nizari" Umayyad dynasty. As the linguist and historian Giorgio Levi Della Vida writes, "it is evident that we cannot speak of Nizar as a tribe...
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    Mohammeds (1910) Mubarakpuri, The Sealed Nectar, p. 238. (online) Giorgio Levi Della Vida and Michael Bonner, Encyclopaedia of Islam, and Madelung, The Succession...
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    another twenty times to refer to the God of Israel in the Psalms. Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1944) suspects that this is a late development, and Joseph Fitzmyer...
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  • Zeev Hirschberg, Israel Ba-‘Arav, Tel Aviv 1946, p. 343 (Hebrew). Giorgio Levi Della Vida and Michael Bonner, Encyclopaedia of Islam, and Madelung, The Succession...
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  • sculptor Ginny Vida (born 1939), American editor and community leader Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1886–1967), Italian Jewish linguist José Vida Soria (1937–2019)...
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    be-Toldot Yisrael, Jerusalem 1946, pp. 20–21 (Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic) Giorgio Levi Della Vida and Michael Bonner, Encyclopaedia of Islam. Madelung (1997), p...
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    awards for scholarship, including a UNESCO award in 1959, and the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Achievement in Islamic Studies from UCLA in 1991. Lecture...
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    behind the letter is also the opinion of Leone Caetani (d. 1935). Giorgio Levi della Vida (d. 1967) is unsure, while Wilferd Madelung strongly rejects the...
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    counted among the most distinguished Italian Arabists together with Giorgio Levi Della Vida and Alessandro Bausani, of whom he was respectively a student and...
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    battling against the tide of intolerance". Watt received the American Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal and won, as its first recipient, the British Society for...
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  • considerable political and military organizational skills. The historian Giorgio Levi Della Vida suggests that information in the early Arabic sources about Umayya...
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  • Islamicist Leone Caetani (d. 1935). Among other Western historians, Giorgio Levi della Vida (d. 1967) is unsure, while Wilferd Madelung strongly rejects the...
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  • "Assemani" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Giorgio Levi della Vida, «ASSEMANI, Stefano Evodio». In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani...
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    de Sarlo Luigi Einaudi Giorgio Errera Giustino Fortunato Eustachio Paolo Lamanna Beppo Levi Giorgio Levi della Vida Tullio Levi-Civita Carlo Linati Attilio...
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  • considerable political and military organizational skills. The historian Giorgio Levi Della Vida suggests that information in the early Arabic sources about Umayya...
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  • philosopher Giorgio Jan, Italian zoologist Giorgio Levi Della Vida, Italian Jewish linguist Giorgio Malinverni, Swiss law professor Giorgio Nataletti,...
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  • University of Genoa library since 1846. Its rediscovery was noted by Giorgio Levi Della Vida in a 1947 article. The manuscript's marginalia contain detailed...
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  • Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Barcelona. In 2012, he received the Giorgio Levi Della Vida medal for Excellence in Islamic studies, Von Grunebaum Center UCLA...
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  • William F. Albright in Baltimore, James Germain Février in Paris and Giorgio Levi Della Vida in Rome during the compilation of the first edition. The 4th edition...
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    and Arabic and Islamic studies under Carlo Alfonso Nallino and Giorgio Levi Della Vida at the Regio Istituto Orientale (later Istituto Universitario Orientale...
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    purported father of the Azd tribe). According to the modern historian Giorgio Levi Della Vida, the Khath'am were most likely a confederation of smaller tribes...
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    a halt under Sulayman (r. 715–717). According to the historian Giorgio Levi Della Vida, "The caliphate of al-Walīd saw the harvest of the seed planted...
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  • traditional Arabic eloquence and poetry, which the orientalist Giorgio Levi Della Vida attributes to the majority of their early leaders being from Bedouin...
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    behind the letter is also the opinion of Leone Caetani (d. 1935). Giorgio Levi della Vida (d. 1967) is unsure, while Wilferd Madelung strongly rejects the...
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  • Rodinson, Muhammad: Prophet of Islam, p. 213. Sahih Muslim, 19:4366 Giorgio Levi Della Vida and Michael Bonner, Encyclopaedia of Islam, and Madelung, The Succession...
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  • 83-86 Ḥamasa, ed. Freytag, pp. 49 et seq. Kitab al-Aghani, Index Giorgio Levi Della Vida, "A proposito di as-Samawʾal", Rassegna degli Studi Orientali,...
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  • 1965), philosopher (Jewish mother) Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1886–1961), linguist specialized in Semitic languages Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), neurologist...
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