Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales
Calle Albasanz, 26-28
Madrid 28037
Spain
ABOUT
I am presently Research Professor at the CCHS-CSIC (Madrid). I have previously been an Associate Professor at the University Complutense in Madrid. I have taught at Stanford University (spring term 2000), University of Chicago (fall term 2011) and at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (Master).
Books: La heterodoxia en al-Andalus durante el periodo omeya, Madrid: IHAC, 1987; ed. of Muhammad b. Waddah al-Qurtubi , Kitab al-bida`, Madrid: CSIC, 1988; transl. of Abu Bakr al-Turtushi, Kitab al-hawadith wa-l-bida`, Madrid: CSIC, 1993; Al-Ándalus: saberes e intercambios culturales, Barcelona: CIDOB Ediciones / Icaria, 2001; Abd al-Rahman III, The first Cordoban caliph, Oneworld, 2005; Atlas ilustrado de la España musulmana, Editorial Susaeta, 2010; Abdarramán III y el califato omeya de Córdoba, Nerea, 2011; The Almohad revolution. Politics and religion in the Islamic West during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, Ashgate: Variorum, 2012.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Andalusi Studies
7th-13th Centuries
Historiography
History Of Religion
Islamic Law
Maghreb Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Hist Of Islam
Hist Of Rel
Islamic Law
Languages
Italian (advanced)
French (fluent)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 1985
| Arabic/Islamic Stds
| U Complutense Madrid
Abstracts
Al-Turtushi and the Fatimids
