Prof. Dr. Maribel Fierro

Maribel Fierro is a Research Professor at the Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo in Madrid, Spain. She held different academic positions, including Directeur d’études associé at the Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as part of the Research Group “Law and State in Classical Islam”. Furthermore, she directed several research projects, including “Knowledge, heresy and political culture in the Islamic West (eighth-fifteenth centuries)” and “Violencia y casting en sociedades islámicas pre-modernas (al-Andalus y el Magreb)”. Among her latest publications are “The Almohad revolution”, “Politics and religion in the Islamic West during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries”, “Abdarramán III y el califato omega de Córdoba” and “Sabios y santos musulmanes de Algeciras”.

She is Visiting Fellow at CAS from January to March 2024 at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt.

On 27 and 28 February, she offers the masterclass "The Representation of Jews and Judaism in al-Andalus: Texts and Contexts".