Martino Diez is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Catholic University of Milan and Scientific Director of the Oasis International Foundation, where he has worked since its inception in 2004. In 2019–2020, he was a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, School of Historical Studies.

His research interests concern the intellectual history of the pre-modern Islamicate world and Islamic-Christian relations, two subjects on which he has published extensively. His most recent monograph is the critical edition of a universal history by al-Makīn ibn al-ʿAmīd, a 13th-century Christian Arab author (Brill 2024). He is currently supervising SEMENSUF, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship on the earliest extant Sufi encyclopedia.

He has been consultor of the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue since 2020, and he sits in the advisory committee of Within Your Gates, the Forum for the universal vocation of Jerusalem established by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. He serves in the editorial team of Oriente Moderno and is a member of the Scientific Board of the journals MIDEO and Islamochristiana. He co-authored “Twice Called: The martyrs of Algeria” at the 2025 Rimini Meeting.

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