Maribel Fierro
Maribel Fierro resides in Madrid, where she is a Research Professor at the Center of Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Dr. Fierro’s books include Al-Andalus: saberes e intercambios culturales (2001, published in Spanish, Arabic and French) and Abd al-Rahman III, the First Cordoban Caliph (2005). She was co-editor of Los almohades: problemas y perspectivas (2005) and is the editor of Volume 2 of the New Cambridge History of Islam, The Western Islamic Lands, Eleventh-Eighteenth Century. In addition, she has authored numerous articles on the intellectual history of al-Andalus, Islamic law and religion. Prior to joining CCHS, Dr. Fierro held positions as a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (1999) and as the Herodotus Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, New Jersey (1994). Her most recent work concerns the public display of violence in Islamic societies, a study for which she was awarded a research grant by the CSIC and Spanish Ministry of Education.
