Dr. Davide Tacchini

• 2006 Ph.D. in Religious Studies at the Catholic University, Milan, Italy. The title of my dissertation: Radical Islamic Views of Christianity and the Western World in Early 20th Century Polemic Literature.
• 1998 M.A. in Arabic Language and Literature (Dottore in Lingua e Letteratura Araba), First Class (110/110 magna cum laude), Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy. Second Oriental Language: Farsi; complementary Western language: English.

• Migration, Religion and Reconciliation
• Reconciliation, Human Mobility and Forced Migrations -Reconciliation in the Qur’ān and the Muslim Tradition -Reconciliation and Gender Studies -Reconciliation and Social Justice -The Idea of “the Other” in the 21st Century -Islam in Europe -Wahhabi Islam: from Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb to Petrodollars -Modern and Contemporary Islamic Thought -Islam and Democracy -Islamic Reformation: Islam in the West, Nāsir Hāmid Abū Zayd and the Concept of Ta’wīl (Hermeneutics) of the Qur’ān.
• Radical Islam, Sayyid Qutb and the new Jāhiliyya: The role of his Works and Life in the Muslim Brotherhood and in Contemporary Radical Islamic Movements.
• Radicalization in the European Context: Schools, Prisons and Mosques -Radical Muslim Views of Christianity: the Muslim View of St. Paul.

• Italian: Native Speaker
• Arabic: Very Good (Modern Standard Arabic); Good (Egyptian Colloquial); Good (Syro-Lebanese Colloquial)
• Spanish: Good (speaking, reading and writing)
• Farsi/Dari: Good (reading); Basic (speaking and writing)
• Latin: Good Working Knowledge
• German: Basic (in development)
• French: Very Good (speaking and reading); Good (writing)
• English: Proficient (IELTS certified)

Last 5 years

2025-2026:

• FSU Jena, JCRS: 1st Workshop and Meeting -FSU Jena, JCRS: How to Write an Academic Paper (Graduate Students and PhD Candidates).

2024-2025

• FSU Jena, JCRS: Conflicts around the World (Graduate Students and PhD Candidates).
• FSU Jena, JCRS: Conflicts around the World pt. 2 (Graduate Students and PhD Candidates).
• FSU Jena, JCRS: The Basics of Reconciliation Studies (Graduate Students and PhD Candidates).

2023-2024

• FSU Jena, JCRS (Coordination): Different Applications of Reconciliation Studies Theories (Graduate Students and PhD Candidates).
• FSU Jena, JCRS (Coordination): Reconciliation Studies: a Multi-Disciplinary Subject (Graduate Students and PhD Candidates).
• University of Parma, Italy: Arabic Language I.

2022-2023

• FSU Jena, JCRS (Coordination):  Reconciliation: Case Studies II (Graduate Students and PhD Candidates).
• FSU Jena: The Pillars of Reconciliation: Basic Texts for the Scholars of Reconciliation Studies (Graduate Students and PhD Candidates).
• University of Parma, Italy: Arabic Language I.

 2021-2022

• FSU Jena, JCRS (Coordination):  Reconciliation: Case Studies I (Graduate Students and PhD Candidates).
• FSU Jena, JCRS (Coordination): Religion and Reconciliation: theoretical and Practical Approaches to Reconciliation from Different Religious Traditions -University of Parma, Italy: Arabic Language I

-June 20, 2026, Piacenza, Italy, 15 years of Welcoming refugees in Town, public event, organized on the World Refugee day 2026 about one of the oldest experiences of welcoming refugees and asylum seeker in the country.

-June 1-3, 2026, Jena, Germany, Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation 1st Workshop and Meeting, Public Workshop, the first in-person workshop for PhD candidates, Applicants and Alumni in the history of the program.

-July 1-4, 2024, Assisi, Italy, 5th I.A.R.S. (International Association for Reconciliation Studies) 5th World Conference: Reconciliation and (social) justice (with Colleen Alena O’Brien).

-June 20, 2024, Jena, Germany, “The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict from Within: Paths for Reconciliation”, Public Event with Prof. Dr. Yaarah Bar-On (Dean of the School of Education at the College of Management Academic Studies “Colman” – Tel Aviv) and Rim Assadi (Palestinian Attorney and Mediator – Tel Aviv University-).

-November 11, 2023, Piacenza, Italy. A Casa Mia, a documentary on the SAI project - World Premiere -.

-March 18, 2022, Ucraina 2022, La Guerra in Europa (Ukraine 2022, the War in Europe), with Giorgio Cella (the Catholic Univ. of Milan), Sergio Ferri (Photographer), Paolo Rebecchi (ANPAS NGO Coordinator) -October 2, 2021, Afghanistan 20 Years Later, the Reasons for the New Rise of the Talibans, Public Lecture organized after the new power change in Afghanistan and the recent forced migration of Afghani Citizens towards Europe. Participants. Heela Najibullah (Univ. of Zürich), Ghulam Raza Ramazani (Piacenza) and Myself.

-June 20, 2018: Srebrenica Refugees, Never Forget, International Conference organized on the UN World Refugee Day. Participants: H.E. The Grand Mufti Emeritus of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mustafa Cerić, Lara J. Nettelfield (Columbia University), Šemso Osmanović (Univ. of Trieste) and myself.

-December 15, 2012: Rethinking Asylum in the 21st Century (www.rethinking-asylum.netExternal link) In collaboration with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). Participants: Matthew Gibney (Oxford Centre for Refugee Studies), Anna Rowlands (King’s College, London), Juergen Humburg (UNHCR), Daniela di Capua (SPRAR Italy National Director) and myself.

-April 10, 2010, International Conference: Ecumenical Perspectives of the Dialogue with Islam, in partnership with the Milan Catholic University, and the Scuola di Formazione Teologica (National Theological Formation Institute). Participants: Radko Popov (University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria), Nicolas Mumejian (Duke University, USA), Paolo Branca (Milan Catholic University), Paolo Nicelli (PIME, Milan) and myself.

-April  21,  2007, International Conference: Western Islam, “New” Muslims Between Tradition and Modernity, in partnership with the Milan Catholic University and the Provincial Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue. Participants: Gamal al-Banna (Cairo University), Wa’il Faruq (American University in Cairo), Senad Bajramović (University of Zagreb), Paolo Branca (Milan Catholic University), Stefano Allievi (University of Padua) and myself.

-2005 and 2006, Series of Lectures: Islam and Christianity: Mutual Knowledge for a Deeper Dialogue, promoted by the Provincial Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue. Participants: Paolo Branca (Milan Catholic University). Francesco Zannini (P.I.S.A.I., Rome), Ida Zilio-Grandi (University of Genoa), Angelo Scarabel (University of Venice) and myself.

-2 June 2026, Jena, Germany,  “Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation 1st Workshop and Meeting”, public lecture: What is Reconciliation?

-3 June 2026, Jena, Germany,  “Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation 1st Workshop and Meeting”, Closing Remarks.

-26 November 2025, Jena, Germany, 1° “Reconciliation Week”, my lecture: “Intercultural Mediation as a Tool for Reconciliation in Contemporary Western Europe”.

-5 November 2025, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 30th I.P.R.A., International Peace Research Association Biennial Conference, “Peace, Resistance and Reconciliation”, my lecture: “The Concepts of Migratio and Conservatio in Different Social Contexts”.

-9 May 2025,  Jena, Germany, Friedrich-Schiller University, Public Lecture – Introduction of the RCR New Applicants: “Academic Resarch, Selva Oscura”.

-7 November 2024, Milan, Italy, European Centre for Social Ethics – Casa della Cultura – Università Vita San Raffaele, Conference: Europa anni ’20, Filosofia e Geopolitica, Guerra e Pace, Quinta Edizione (Europe in the 20s, Philosophy and Geo-Politics, War and Peace, 5th Edition), my panel: Guerra e Pace, nel Nome di Dio? (War and Peace: in the Name of God?), with Giancarlo Bosetti, Reset Doc.

-3 July 2024, Assisi, Italy, 5th I.A.R.S. (International Association for Reconciliation Studies) 5th World Conference: Reconciliation and (social) justice: “The so called ‘Hölderlin Perspective’: a crytical Analysis”.

-1 July 2024, 5th I.A.R.S. (International Association for Reconciliation Studies) 5th World Conference: Reconciliation and (social) justice: Workshop Leader, “Religion and Reconciliation” and “What is Reconciliation” with Colleen O’Brien).

-20 June 2024, Jena, Germany, Public Event “The Palestinian Conflict from Within: Paths for Reconciliation” with Yaarah Bar-On (College of Management, Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion, Israele) e Rim Assadi (Tel Aviv University).

-20 May 2024, Palermo, Italy, European Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Panel: Reconciliation Studies as a Paradigm Shift in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies. My Lecture (with Colleen O’Brien) “What is Reconciliation?”

-19 May 2024, Palermo, Italy, European Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Panel Interreligious Perspective on Death and Dying, My Lecture: The Afterlife, Christian-Muslim Comparative Views.

-14 March 2024, Jena, Germany, Friedrich-Schiller University, COIMBRA Winter School Keynote, Religion and Reconciliation, the Case of Islam.

-11 December 2023, Jena, Germany, Friedrich-Schiller University: “Fall of the Wall in the Mind: a Journey Towards Reconciliation of North Korean Refugee Christians”, my lecture: Reconciliation and Refugees: the Special Case of North Korea.

-16 August 2023, Chicago, IL, USA, Parliament of the World’s Religions, my lecture: Voices of Muslims amongst Us.

-15 August 2023, Chicago, IL, USA, Parliament of the World’s Religions, my lecture: Reconciliation and the Cases of Refugees, Transgender People, Converts.

-3 August 2023, Kibuye (Karongi), Rwanda, 4th World Conference on Reconciliation, my Lecture: The Most Difficult Application of Reconciliation Studies? Reconciliation with Yourself.

-30 June 2023, Jena, Germany (Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies), JCRS 10th year celebration conference: The Doctoral Programme “Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation”.

-16 February 2023, Hartford, CT, U.S.A. (Hartford International University for Religion and Peace), Public Lecture / Book Talk: Reconciliation and Refugees (with Rev. Nicolas Mumejian).

-28 September 2022, Paris, France, P.A.R.C. (Paris Advanced Research Center), Public Lecture: The New Italian Government: Center-Right or Far-Right? Is Italy in Need of Reconciliation?

-18 August 2022, Washington, DC (Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University). I.A.R.S. International Association for Reconciliation Studies Annual Meeting, my lecture: Human Mobility, Forced Migration and Reconciliation in the 21st Century.

-8 April 2022, Jena, Germany (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität) Book Launch “Reconciliation and Refugees” (Tacchini-Barakat-Leiner-Dajani, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2022), My Lecture: Forced Migration in the 20s of the 21st Century: an Overview.

-1 March 2022, London, UK (online), ImpeTUM Conference, Careers, Skills and Lessons Learnt, organized by Imperial College London and Max Planck Institute Berlin. My Lecture: A Career in Islamic Studies, Reconciliation and Migration.

-21 December, 2021, Rabat, Morocco (hybrid,), Al-Hokama Center for Peace Research, International Workshop: Idārat as-Sira‘āt wa Hall an-Nizā‘āt (Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution), my lecture: Reconciliation and Islam: Reflections on Cor. 49:9, In Arabic and English.

-12 November 2021, Jena Germany (hybrid), International Conference: “Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium Versöhnungsforschung 2021”, my Lecture: New Perspectives on Reconciliation and Islam.

-2 October 2021, Piacenza, Italy, Afghanistan 20 Years Later, Public Lecture with Heela Najibullah (Univ. of Zürich), and G. R. Ramazani, my talk: The Recent Afghani Refugees in Italy, an Unprecedented Opportunity.

-30 Aug. 2021, Münster, Germany, European Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Panel: “Reconciliation Studies as a New Perspective in Religion and Change in Present Times”,, my lecture: Reconciliation in the Qur’an and the Muslim Tradition: an Underestimated Resource.

-24 March 2021, Paris, France (online), P.A.R.C. (Paris Advanced Research Center), Public Lecture, Italy and COVID-19, A Strong Start with No Happy Ending.

-17 November 2020, Amman, Jordan (online), “Protracted Displacement: Hopes, Perspectives and Solutions” Conference, day 4, Section 1: “Conflict and Protected Uncertainty”, my Lecture (with Martin Leiner): Introduction to Reconciliation Studies: Alternative Approaches to Conflict Resolution.

-24 June 2020, Jena, Germany, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Public Lecture (hybrid), Migration and Reconciliation in the 21st Century.

-9 October 2019, Milan, Italy, The Catholic University, International Conference: “Religious Traditions in the Face of the Crisis of Liberal System: the Case of Islam”. My lecture: Human Mobility, Refugees and Reconciliation in the MENA Region.

-12 June 2019, Flensburg, Germany, Europa Universität Flensburg, International Conference and Summer School: “Islam and Democracy”, my lecture: Islam and Democracy, Muslim Voices amongst Us.

-12 August 2018, Jena, Germany, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, International Conference, “Reconciliation in the Middle East & North Africa: An Interdisciplinary Research”. My Lecture: Reflections on the Hermeneutics of the Other and the Idea of Reconciliation.

-30 June 2018, Toronto, ON, Canada, International Conference, “The Church and Migration, Global (in)difference?” My lecture: Religion as a Consequence of (Forced) Migrations from Africa: the Reshaping of Religious Geography in Europe.

-20 June 2018, Piacenza, Italy, International Conference: “Srebrenica Refugees, Never Forget”. With H.E. the Grand Mufti Emeritus of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mustafa Ćerić and Lara J. Nettelfield (Columbia University, NY): my Lecture: The First Refugees in Europe and Current Asylum Seekers from Africa: Similarities and Differences.

-7 March 2018, Bologna, Italy, European Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, my Lecture: Muslim Leaders’ Training and Muslim Inmates in Italy and the USA. Any possible Comparison?

-30 May 2017, Jena, Germany, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, International Conference, “Reformation and Global Reconciliation”, my lecture: Radical Muslim Views of Reformed Christianity, a New Perspective for Muslim-Christian Relations.

-24 July 2016, Hong Kong, Ming Hua College & Chinese University of Hong Kong, International Conference “Faith in China”,  my lecture: Chinese Muslim Communities in the View of Western Mainstream Press.

-22 May 2015, Washington, DC, USA, Georgetown University, International Conference “Theology without Borders, Celebrating the Legacy of Peter C. Phan”, my lecture: Training Muslims Religious Leaders in 21st Century Italy. The FIDR project.

-13 April 2015, London, UK, University of London, B.R.A.I.S. (British Association for Islamic Studies) Annual Meeting: My Lecture, together with the Hon. Amédée Turner: Muslim Voices Amongst Us.

-10 April 2014, Oxford, UK, Ripon College, International Conference “Hope in the Ecumenical Future”, my lecture (with the Hon. Amédée Turner): Islam and Democracy as a Method of Inter-Religious Understanding.

-2 April 2014, Erbil, Iraq, Salahuddin University, International Conference “al-Islām, al-Hadhātha wa ’s-Salām” (Islam, Modernity and Peace): My Lecture: Al-Islām wa ’d-Dimūqrātiya: Aswāt al-Muslimīn fī ’l-Gharb. (Islam and Democracy, Muslim Voices in the West), In Arabic.

-3 October 2013, Padua, Italy, University of Padua, Interfaith Dialogue and Peace. Public Lecture organized by the US Consulate in Milan in occasion of the visit of Imam M. Bashar Arafat (CECF - Notre Dame of Maryland University). My Lecture: Introduction to Italian Islam.

-15 December 2012, Piacenza, Italy, International Conference “Rethinking Asylum in the 21st Century, Theory and Practice”. My Lecture: The World is on the Move: Migration as the Human Face of Globalization.

-25 March 2012, London, ON, Canada. University of Western Ontario – Huron University College. International Conference: “Islam and Democracy, Potentials and Possibilities”. My Lecture (with the Hon. Amédée Turner) Voices of Muslims amongst Us, First official presentation of our research: “Muslim Grassroots Discuss Democracy”.

-5 May 2011, Lugano, Switzerland, S.U.P.S.I., University of Italian Switzerland, Public Panel (Broadcasted on the Swiss National Television). My Lecture: The Arab Spring, what May Cairo and Tunis Teach Us?

-3 December, 2010, Madrid, Spain, International Conference: “Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures” (Comisión jóvenes investigadores ILC CCHS CSIC). My Lecture: Do Muslims Refuse Modernity? How European Islam May Help Moving Forward.

-7 December 2010, Washington, DC, USA, The Catholic University of America, Public Lecture: The Hermeneutics of the Other and the Reification of Christian-Muslim Relations.

-24 November 2010, Granada, Spain, International Conference, “Ibadah, reuniòn des expertos sur el papel de las universidades Occidentales sobre la imagen del Islam y de los Musulmanes en Europa”. My lecture: Dawr al-Jāmi‘āt al-ġarbiyya fī taṭawwur al-Islām fī ūrūbbā: ta’wīl al-akhar (The role of Western Universities in Islamic Reformation, the hermeneutics of the other). -In Arabic and Spanish-

-26 June 2009, Oxford, UK, Balliol College, Oxford University. International Conference: “Current Trends in Legal Protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief - National and International Perspectives”, My Lecture: Muslim Places of Worship in Europe and the U.S.A.

-6 May 2009, Hartford, CT, USA, Hartford Seminary. Public Panel: “Paulinism and the 21st Century”, My lecture: Paul Whom the Christians Call Apostle.

-25 February 2009, Milan, Italy, The Catholic University. International Conference: “Religion in the Public Space”, My Lecture: Hartford Seminary, from the Missionary to the Imam.

-12 December 2008, New Britain, CT, USA, Huseyn Center. Public Panel: my lecture delivered together with Prof. Mahmoud Ayoub: Jesus in the Qur’ān and the Gospels.

-18 November 2008, Hartford, CT, USA Connecticut Council For Religious Understanding. Public Panel “Islam in the 21st Century, My Lecture: What a Billion Muslims Think.

-6 June 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, Bilgi University, International Conference Istanbul Seminars 2008, My Lecture: Hartford Seminary, Exploring Differences, Deepening Faith: from the Missionary to the Islamic Chaplain.

-28 February 2008, Hartford, CT, USA, Hartford Seminary, Public Lecture, Sayyid Qutb’s America I have seen, Mere Polemic or Something Deeper?

-4 March 2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of World Religions, University of Dhaka. Public Lecture, delivered together with Francesco Rapacioli, O.P.: Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Europe: an overview.

Organized Events

• June 20, 2018: Srebrenica Refugees, Never Forget, International Conference organized on the UN World Refugee Day. Participants: H.E. The Grand Mufti Emeritus of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mustafa Ceric, Lara J. Nettelfield (Columbia University), Semso Osmanovic (Univ. of Trieste). -Scientific Coordinator-
• December 15, 2012: Rethinking Asylum in the 21^st Century (www.rethinking-asylum.net) In collaboration with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). Participants: Matthew Gibney (Oxford Centre for Refugee Studies), Anna Rowlands (King’s College, London), Juergen Humburg (UNHCR), Daniela di Capua (SPRAR Italy National Director) and myself. -Scientific Coordinator and organizer-
• April 10, 2010, International Conference: Ecumenical Perspectives of the Dialogue with Islam, in partnership with the Milan Catholic University, and the Scuola di Formazione Teologica (National Theological Formation Institute). Participants: Prof. Radko Popov (University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria), Rev. Nicolas Mumejian (Duke University, USA), Prof. Paolo Branca (Milan Catholic University), Prof. Paolo Nicelli (PIME, Milan) and myself. -Scientific Coordinator and discussant-
• April 21, 2007, International Conference: Western Islam, “New” Muslims Between Tradition and Modernity, in partnership with the Milan Catholic University and the Provincial Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue. Participants: Prof. Gamāl al-Bannā (Cairo University), Prof. Wā’il Fārūq (American University in Cairo), Prof. Senad Bajramovic (University of Zagreb), Prof. Paolo Branca (Milan Catholic University), Prof. Stefano Allievi (University of Padua) and myself. -Scientific Coordinator and discussant-

Books

-Tacchini, D. - Turner, A., Islam and Democracy, Muslim Voices Amongst Us, Milan-London, Mimesis International, 2020, pp. 214.

-Tacchini, D., Radicalismo islamico, Il diario del soggiorno di Sayyid Qutb, negli Stati Uniti dal 1948 al 1950, Milano, Obarrao Editore, 2015, pp. 162.

-Tacchini, D., Sharh al-luġa al-‘arabiyya li’l-ītāliyyīn, Guida alla comprensione dei fondamenti della lingua araba con suggerimenti per migliorare la didattica dell’italiano agli studenti arabofoni (Introduction to Arabic Language, how to teach Italian to Arabic native speakers), in “Quaderni del Centro Studi”, ed. Comune di Cremona, Associazione Centro Studi e Ricerche Sociali, 2006, pp. 97.

Edited Books

-Tacchini, D., Ferrari, F., Villanueva, L., Gurstein, B. (eds), Transdisciplinary Approaches on Reconciliation Research (Studies in Honor of Martin Leiner), RIPAR (Research in Peace and Reconciliation) Series, Göttingen/Germany, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024.

-Tacchini, D., Barakat, Z., Leiner, M., Dajani, I. (eds), Reconciliation and Refugees, the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa I, RIPAR (Research in Peace and Reconciliation) Series, Göttingen/Germany, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2022.

-Tacchini, D., Angelucci, A., Bombardieri, M., Cuciniello, A. (eds), Chiesa e Islam in Italia, Incontro e Dialogo, EDB Editore, Bologna 2019, pp. 184.

-Tacchini, D., Thomas , D. Chesworth, J. et al Christian-Muslim Relations  A Bibliographical History, Volume 9. Western and Southern Europe (1600-1700).

-Tacchini, D., Angelucci, A., Bombardieri, M. (eds), Islam e Integrazione in Italia. (Islam and Integration in Italy), Milan-Venice, Marsilio Editore, 2014, pp. 166.

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

-Tacchini, D., Migration and Reconciliation in the 21st Century, in “Annali di Scienze Religiose” (ASR 13) 2022, Brepols Publishers, pp. 159-180, 10.1484/J.ASR.5.121726.

-Tacchini, D.-Turner, A., Islam and Democracy: The Voice of Western Muslims, in Barakat, Z.-Münchov, T, Wüstenberg, R. (eds),  “Islam and Democracy: Law, Gender and the West”, Darmstadt, WBG Academic, 2022, pp. 133-148.

-Tacchini, D., La figura dell’Imam dall’Islam classico alla situazione italiana contemporanea, in Tacchini, D., Angelucci, A., Bombardieri, M., Cuciniello, A. (eds), Chiesa e Islam in Italia, Incontro e Dialogo, EDB Editore, Bologna 2019, pp. 43-60.

-Tacchini, D., Italy, in “Yearbook of Muslims in Europe” Vol. 12, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2021, pp. 376-392.

-Tacchini, D., Italy, in “Yearbook of Muslims in Europe” Vol. 11, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2020, pp. 360-378.

-Tacchini, D., Italy, in “Yearbook of Muslims in Europe” Vol. 10, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2019, pp. 360-377.

-Tacchini, D., Italian Islam, Imam and Mosque Today, in Pratt, D., Hoover, J., Davies, J.,  Chesworth, J. (eds), The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter, Essays in Honour of David Thomas, Leiden, Brill, 2015.

-Tacchini, D., Turner, A., Islam and Democracy: Voices of Muslims Amongst Us in Mattson, I., Nesbitt-Larkin, P. and Nawaz, T. (ed.), Religion and Representation: Islam and Democracy, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. pp. 228-242.

-Tacchini, D., L’Imam, questo sconosciuto. Chi è e cosa fa, in Angelucci, A., Bombardieri, M., Tacchini, D., Islam e Integrazione in Italia, Milan-Venice 2014, Marsilio Editore, pp. 115-131.

-Tacchini, D., Islam, Mosques and Islamic Centers in the United States of America, in Allievi, S. (Ed.) Mosques in Europe. Why a solution has become a problem. London, Alliance Publishing Trust, 2011 pp. 373-381.

-Tacchini, D., Paul, the One Whom Christians Call Apostle. A Journey Through Muslim Anti-Pauline Polemic, in B. Pirone, E. Bolognesi (ed), San Paolo letto da Oriente, Studia Orientalia Christiana Monographiae 18, The Franciscan Centre of Christian Oriental Studies, Musky, Cairo / Edizioni Terra Santa, Milano, 2010, pp. 219-236.

-Tacchini, D., Paul the Forgerer, Classical and Modern Radical Muslim Views of the Apostle of Tarsus, in “Islamochristiana”, 34, (2008), pp. 129-147.

-Tacchini, D., Islamic Apologetic and Polemic Against the West, Prospects of Dialogue, in “Proceedings of the International Conference Western Islam, “New” Muslims Between Tradition and Modernity”, held in Piacenza, Italy on April 21, 2007, “Annali di Scienze Religiose”, December (2) 2009.

-Tacchini, D., Islam and Christianity: Prospects of Dialogue in the West, (with Select Bibliography) In “Proceedings of the International Conference Western Islam, “New” Muslims Between Tradition and Modernity”, held in Piacenza, Italy on April 21, 2007, “Annali di Scienze Religiose”, December (2) 2009.

-Tacchini, D., Busnelli, P. Commented Translation from Arabic to Italian:  Farouk, W., Kayfa Yumārisu al-Muslimūna al-Ḥadātha wa yarfuḍūnahā fī nafs al-waqt (How Muslims live modernity and refuse to accept it at the same time), in “Proceedings of the International Conference Western Islam, “New” Muslims Between Tradition and Modernity”, Piacenza, 21 Aprile 2007, Annali di Scienze Religiose, December (2) 2009.

-Tacchini, D., Paolo il falsificatore, visioni islamiche radicali dell’Apostolo di Tarso, in “Annali di scienze religiose”, 10/2005, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano.

Articles and Book Chapters

-Tacchini, D., Sayyid Qutb’s View of American Society: Main Themes, Attentive Observations, Pre-Critical Approaches and Chance for Dialogue and Reconciliation, in Tacchini, D., Ferrari, F., Villanueva, L., Gurstein, B. (eds), “Transdisciplinary Approaches on Reconciliation Research” (Studies in Honor of Martin Leiner), RIPAR (Research in Peace and Reconciliation) Series, Göttingen/Germany, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024.

-Tacchini, D., Heritage, Social Inclusion, Refugees and Reconciliation with your Past: a Multidisciplinary Approach, in Dajani, I. – Leiner, M. (eds), “Reconciliation, Heritage and Social Inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa”, New York, Springer Cham, 2022, pp. 155-171.

-Tacchini, D., Migration and the Need for Reconciliation in Contemporary Europe, in Tacchini, D., Barakat, Z., Leiner, M., Dajani, I.,(eds) “Reconciliation and Refugees, the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa I”, RIPAR (Research in Peace and Reconciliation) Series, Göttingen/Germany, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2022.

-Tacchini, D., Barakat, Z., Leiner, M., Dajani, I., Introduction, in Tacchini, D., Barakat, Z., Leiner, M., Dajani, I.,(eds) “Reconciliation and Refugees, the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa I”, RIPAR (Research in Peace and Reconciliation) Series, Göttingen/Germany. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2022.

-Tacchini, D., L’Imam, in “Schede per l’islam in Italia”, September 2016, available online at http://www.chiesacattolica.it/ecumenismo/siti_di_uffici_e_servizi/ufficio_nazionale_per_l_ecumenismo_e_il_dialogo_interreligioso/00071150_Schede_per_una_conoscenza_piu_approfondita_dell_Islam.htmlExternal link

-I.A.R.S. International Association for Reconciliation Studies, Member of the Scientific Committee, 2022 (Editor in Chief of the “Journal of Reconciliation Studies” -with Colleen O’Brien-) Washington, DC, 2022. https://www.iars-world.de/aboutccprcpExternal link

-A.A.R.M.E.N.A., Academic Alliance of Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (Founding Member), Jena, Germany, 2018.

-Verein zur Förderung der Versöhnungsforschung und Praxis e.V., Regular member, Jena, Germany, 2018.

-PL.U.R.I.E.L. (Plateforme Universitaire de Recherche sur L’Islam en Europe et au Liban), University Research Network on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (https://pluriel.fuce.eu/chercheur/tacchini-davide/External link), Milan 2017.

-E.I. Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network, Full member (https://ei-research.netExternal link), Assisi 2012.

-University Center for Culture, Law and Religions (former International Forum Democracy and Religion), Alessandria, Italy 2009. www.fidr.itExternal link

-A.A.R., American Academy of Religion, Regular member, Atlanta 2010. https://www.aarweb.org/AARMBR/My_Account/AAR-Member-Profile-Page/AccountPage.aspx?hkey=7a81031a-5781-440c-bc09-7d8abbf1bea1External link

-Eu.A.Re., European Academy of Religion, Regular member, Bologna, Italy 2018. https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.orgExternal link

-C.E.I., Conferenza Episcopale Italiana, Commissione per l’Ecumenismo e il Dialogo Interreligioso, Gruppo di Riflessione sull’Islam in Italia. (Conference of Italian Bishops, Commission for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue, Islam in Italy Reflection Group), Rome 2015. https://ecumenismo.chiesacattolica.it/category/documenti/schede-sullislam/External link 

-Se.Sa.Mo. Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (Society of Middle Eastern Studies), Milan 2014, www.sesamoitalia.itExternal link.

-2019 June – September: coordination of the writing of a funding proposal for the foundation of a Maria-Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Middle East with the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. The project involved German institutions (DAI Berlin, IMW Fraunhofer Leipzig, Tx Architekten, Berlin), the University of Jordan, Amman, Petra University, Amman, OIB Beirut, the University of Tunis, University Tunis El-Manar, Université de la Manouba and Az-Zaytuna University.

-2012-2017,  CMR1900 Project: I have been part of the Christian-Muslim Relations: a Bibliographical History project as the person in Charge of Italy, the Papal State and Malta. The project was based at the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, and was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC).  Its results are being published by Brill as part of the Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History series edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth. CMR1900 brought together the known writings by Christians and Muslims about one another and against one another in the period 1500-1900. Its scope is global, aiming to identify and analyze these works in the different areas of the world.

-2009-2017, member of the scientific committee of the Inter-University Center for Cultures, Law and Religion (the Former International Forum for Democracy and Religion, FIDR, see below), which has set up the first experimental formation course for Muslim Religious Leaders ever organized in Italy. Among the promoters of this unique initiative are the Italian Ministry of Interior, the American Consulate in Milan, the FIDR (International Forum for Democracy and Religion), the Catholic University and the State University of Milan, the universities of Padua and the one of Eastern Piedmont.

-2009-2011, member of the team of scholars which has organized the so called Qur’anic-Biblical Atélier (Atélier Biblico Coranico, ABC, in Italian). This project involved young Italian Catholics, Muslims and Jews in an academic and practical interaction on the example of the so called B.A.P. (Building Abrahamic Partnerships) at Hartford Seminary (now Hartford International University for Religion and Peace) or of some of the activities organized by the Interfaith Youth Core (now Interfaithamerica) in Chicago, IL.

-I have acted as a consultant on numerous projects concerning language learning and introductory courses on Italian culture for Arab-speaking immigrants in the past 25 years and as an interpreter and translator in Libya, Egypt, Kuwait, Romania, Bulgaria, collaborating with a team of exporters in my hometown’s area.

I am one of the arena announcers of Worldskate™, the sanctioning body of Roller Sports in the World. I acted as the official announcer at the 2023, 2024 and 2025 World Speed Skating Championships, at the 2022 European Speed Skating Championships and at the 2025 Track Series World Cup Finals. I am also one of Italian Skating Federation Announcers since 2019.

I have been part of a boy scout group of the Italian Catholic Scout Association (AGESCI), until 2001, for 20 years, 6 of which as a troop leader. I took part in the 19th World Scout Jamboree in Chile in 1999 with the International Service Group, acting as a translator (Italian-English-Arabic-French and Spanish) and hike guide.

I participated in the Inline downhill (downhill competitions with inline skates) World Cup Circuit from 2000 until 2021 winning -Bronze Medals in the 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 World Cup Overall ranking, -Various podiums in international competitions (in Austria, USA, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland), and -I have been Italian National Champion in 2013 and vice-national Champion in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

I have been chosen as a member of the Italian National Team in 2012-2013-2014-2016-2018, 2019 and 2021.

-From 2005 to 2012 I have been President of IIDA (International Inline Downhill Association), the sanctioning body of the World Cup and association of the athletes of the discipline.

I am currently Worldskate™ Inline Downhill Chairman of the World Commission of the Discipline.

-Other than sport, I love photography. I have organized local exhibitions and have taken part in some contests at the regional level. My favorite subject is water, but I enjoy taking sport pictures, too.