Prof. Dr. Maribel Fierro
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Maribel Fierro is Research Professor at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC – Spain). Her research focuses on the political, religious and intellectual history of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, Islamic law (especially Malikism), the construction of orthodoxy and the persecution of heresies, and violence and its representation in Medieval Arabic sources. She is presently directing with Mayte Penelas the project Local contexts and global dynamics: al-Andalus and the Maghreb in the Islamic East (financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education); the resulting collective volume The Maghrib in the Mashriq. Travel, Knowledge and Identity, will be published by De Gruyter (2020). She is also editing with S. Brentjes and T. Seidensticker a collective volume on Rulers as authors in the Islamic world: knowledge, authority and legitimacy (Brill). Among her publications: The Almohad revolution. Politics and religion in the Islamic West during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries (2012), and Abd al-Rahman III: The first Cordoban caliph (2005). She is the editor of volume 2 (The Western Islamic world, eleventh-eighteenth centuries) of The New Cambridge History of Islam (2010); Orthodoxy and heresy in Islam: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies (2013); with J. Tolan, The legal status of dimmi-s in the Islamic West (2013) and with H. Ansari, C. Adang and S. Schmidtke of Accusations of unbelief in Islam: A diachronic perspective on takfir (2015). She has been the recipient of the Anneliese Maier Award 2014 of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation