Maribel Fierro is Research Professor at the Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). She has published on the political and intellectual history of the pre-modern Islamic West (al-Andalus and North Africa), Islamic law, and on the representation of violence in Islamic societies. Her books include: ¿Qué sabemos de … al-Andalus? (2024), ʽAbd al-Muʼmin. Mahdism and caliphate in the Islamic West (2021), ʽAbd al-Rahman III, the first Cordoban caliph (2005), The Almohad revolution (2012), and Al-Andalus: saberes e intercambios culturales (2001; translated into French and Arabic). She has edited The Routledge Handbook on Muslim Iberia (2020), Orthodoxy and Heresy in Islam: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies (2013), vol. II of The New Cambridge History of Islam (2010) entitled The Western Islamic World, Eleventh-Eighteenth Centuries; (with Sonja Brentjes and Tilman Seidensticker), Rulers as Authors in Islamic Societies (2024); (with Mayte Penelas), The Maghrib in the Mashriq. Knowledge, Travel and Identity (2021), and (with Christian Lange), Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere (7th-19th centuries CE) (2009). Dr. Fierro has held visiting positions at the universities of Chicago, Hamburg, Leiden, Exeter, Paris-1, Toulouse, and EHESS (Paris). Her work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, the European Research Council, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
