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Dr Sabrina Lei

Dr Sabrina Lei, Director of Tawasul International Centre for Publishing, Research and Dialogue, Rome, is a noted Italian-European Muslim author, philosopher, translator, cross-cultural expert and interfaith leader.

Some of Dr Sabrina’s noted translations Italian translations are the Hindu spiritual classic Bhagavad Gita (Rome, 2019), the modern Indian reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s A Gift to the Monotheists (Un dono per i credenti in un solo Dio: Tuhfat ul Muwahhidin  Rome 2019), Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s 1934 English Quran translation, called Il Significato del Sacro Corano (Rome, 2018), Dr  Safi Kaskas’ and Dr David Hungerford’s The Quran with Biblical References (Il Corano : Con Riferimenti Alla Bibia, Rome, 2016), Muhammad Iqbal’s The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (La ricostruzione del pensiero religioso nell'islam, Rome, 2010, 2018) and the noted Malayalam actor and a former member of Indian Parliament Innocent’s  Laughing Cancer Away  (Vincere il cancro con il sorriso. L'esperienza di un attore, Rome, 2017).

Dr Sabrina is currently working to complete her Italian translation of a selected Upanishads, Sree Narayana Guru’s Atmopadesa Śatakam (One Hundred Verses of Self-Instruction) and an abridged translation of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata.

Dr Sabrina Lei has also translated a number literary works such as poems, short stories, etc. from the Gulf region. And some of them are the noted UAE poet Dr Shihab Ghanem’s   25 Racconti brevi dagli Emirati Arabi Uniti (Rome 2019),  and the Omani poet Said Al-Saqlawi’s Il testamento di Qaid al-Ard (Rome, 2019).

Dr Sabrina has also authored over half a dozen books in Italian on topics as diverse as medieval studies to theology and biography. Some of such books authored by Dr Sabrina  are Muhammad il Profeta dell'Islam (Rome, 2018), Le comunità religiose non-musulmane nel mondo islamico. Un'introduzione storica (Rome, 2019) and Breve Storia del Cristianesimo Dalle Origini al Concilio di Calcedonia,  (A Brief History of Christianity : From Origin to The Council of Chalcedon, Rome, 2019).

Sabrina Lei, trained in ancient Greek and Latin for almost a decade, has a MA in modern philosophy. And her PhD is in ancient philosophy. Dr Sabrina has contributed enormously to the Italian cultural and literary space through her different works published in Italian in the fields as diverse as philosophy, Hindu and Islamic studies, poetry, story-telling, classics, theology, history and cultural studies.