Letizia Osti is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Milan. She has worked on premodern Arabic prose and narrative techniques in biographical collections, historiography, literature, and intersections thereof. She is the author of History and memory in the Abbasid caliphate: writing the past in medieval Arabic literature (Bloomsbury, 2022) and coauthor (with M. Van Berkel, N.M. El Cheikh, and H. Kennedy) of Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court (Brill, 2013). She coedited (with M. Van Berkel) The Historian of Islam at Work (Brill, 2022) and (with M. Cassarino, A. Ghersetti, and S. Pagani), Antologia della letteratura araba (Carocci, 2024).
