Paolo La Spisa (PhD 2006) was Marie Curie Fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (UCL), between 2008 and 2010. He is now a researcher of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Genova. His main topic of research is the pre-modern Christian Arabic Literature, especially in the Melkite Orthodox milieu. He has produced a new critical edition and translation of the Palestinian Bishop Sulaymān al-Ġazzī’s theological treatises (10^th–11^th century). Aspects related to text criticism methodology of Arabic texts and their Middle Arabic features are included in his main articles and contributions.