Profilo

Davide Inda is a PhD candidate in Law and Protection: Contemporary Experience, Comparative Perspectives, and the Romanistic Legal System at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he is conducting research on the concept of takfīr in contemporary Salafi legal thought, with particular attention to its quietist and jihadist articulations.

He holds two Master’s degrees from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” in Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (with highest honours) and in Relations and Institutions of Asia and Africa, as well as a second-level Master’s degree in Policies and Management in the Middle East and North Africa from LUISS Guido Carli (with highest honours).

He is a member of the Istituto per l’Oriente Carlo Alfonso Nallino (Rome), serves as a subject expert in Muslim Law and the Law of Islamic Countries, is affiliated with the CNR-ISMed, and works as a teaching assistant at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in the same field. His research interests include contemporary Islamic law, Salafism and its transformations, and the relationship between Islam and political modernity, with a particular focus on comparative approaches and the analysis of interactions between legal systems.