1.0ACUTEShttps://acutes.unimi.it/en/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="YXJapgpF7C"><a href="https://acutes.unimi.it/en/profilo/letizia-osti/">Letizia Osti</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://acutes.unimi.it/en/profilo/letizia-osti/embed/#?secret=YXJapgpF7C" width="600" height="338" title="“Letizia Osti” — ACUTES" data-secret="YXJapgpF7C" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://acutes.unimi.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/173/2026/01/Osti-photo_Letizia-Osti-e1767610976498.jpg600800Letizia 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 […]