Maribel Fierro
Biographic Data
| ID | 375296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maribel Fierro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maribel |
| FAMILY NAME | Fierro |
| SIGNATURE | FIERRO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4736-7224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Carmen Barceló (1949-2024)
Nacida en Cartagena el 21 de marzo de 1949, Carmen Barceló nos dejó en Valencia el 23 de diciembre de 2024.Formada en Filología Árabe en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, se doctoró en 1982 con una tesis sobre el dialecto árabe hablado en la región valenciana en época medieval, siendo este un interés -el del estudio de la lengua-que nunca abandonó.La tesis fue dirigida por el Catedrático de la UCM Elías Terés, con quien compartió además el in…
Rulers Making Boundaries Clear in the Medieval Islamic West: The Cordoban Umayyads and the Almohads
Four events that took place in the medieval Islamic West (al-Andalus and North Africa west of Egypt, second/ninth–eighth/fifteenth centuries) illustrate how rulers intentionally drew clear boundaries between individuals and between groups in ways that were sometimes striking. The first case has to do with the ruler’s body, the second with the way horses were mounted in the army, and the third and fourth – less surprisingly – with clothing and nam…
Tariq b. Ziyad y los barbar
If she is a woman, she will be Christian. Religious affiliation in some mixed marriages in Islamic societies
This article reviews some reports indicating that in some Islamic societies and in cases of mixed marriages (Muslim father and non-Muslim mother) daughters born of such marriages were allowed to follow the mother's religion. This was despite the fact that Islamic law stipulated that all children were Muslim. These reports suggest that some of the women who participated in the movement of the Cordovan 'voluntary martyrs' may have come from a simil…
Alfonso Carmona González (1943-2023), in memoriam
Pierre Guichard (1939-2021): Un souvenir personnel
Mes premiers souvenirs de Pierre Guichard sont associs une runion qui eut lieu l
Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts Edited by Rachel Scott, AbdoolKarim Vakil and Julian Weiss
Consisting of twelve contributions, this collective book deals with a topic that of late has been the object of sustained attention: the use of al-Andalus to talk about other issues, which vary according to the context in which the talking takes place and those involved. The contributions by two of the editors, Rachel Scott and AbdoolKarim Vakil, which make up Part I (‘Departure Points’), explain in detail the conception and aims of the book. Par…
Ana Labarta (with Carmen Barceló). Anillos de la Península Ibérica, 711–1611
Reseña sobre el libro Anillos de la Península Ibérica, 711–1611 de Ana Labarta y Carmen Barceló, publicado por la Editorial Ángeles Carrillo Baeza en el año 2017
Los cuentos del sentir: Buscando emociones en Andalucía
The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia, is an odd book to review from an academic point of view, as it is really more of an ideological manifesto for what the author calls "Andalucismo" than an informed and balanced work of scholarship. 1 I will first deal with the author's project and I will end dealing with certain assertions by the author that are outright falsehoods
Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān: An Almohad Reading
Ibn Ṭufayl’s (d. 581/1185) connection with Almohad rulers and involvement in the Almohad doctrinal and intellectual project has been addressed by Nemesio Morata and Lawrence Conrad, among others. Conrad argues that Ibn Ṭufayl belonged to the newly created Almohad elites, the ṭalaba, the empire’s doctrinarians. Morata analyses the famous passage where Ibn Ṭufayl presents Ibn Rushd al-Ḥafīd (Averroes) to the then prince Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf – who would…
Why Ibn Ḥazm became a Ẓāhirī: Charisma, Law and the Court
EN] The great Cordoban polygraph Ibn Hazm (d. 456/1064) chose as the legal school to follow the \nliteralist or Ẓāhirī, instead of the Mālikī legal school that was the predominant in al-Andalus and \nthat had been supported by the Cordoban Umayyads. On the basis of the information provided \nby his personal biography and his political trajectory as well as of the analysis of some of his \ndoctrinal conclusions, I conclude that his election is exp…
Ibn Rušd al-Ḥafīd (Averroes) y su exilio a Lucena: Orígenes judíos, genealogía y conversión forzosa
La acusación de orígenes judíos formulada contra Ibn Rušd al-Ḥafīd (Averroes) cuando fue exilado a Lucena es analizada teniendo en cuenta acusaciones similares formuladas contra otros andalusíes durante los periodos almorávide y almohade, así como las representaciones islámicas de los judíos en las que estos a menudo son descritos como agentes de herejías foráneas. También se analiza la influencia del contexto de sospecha y ansiedad creado por la…
Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfīr
The present volume—the first of its kind—deals with takfīr: accusing one ́s opponents of unbelief (kufr). Originating in the first decades of Islam, this practice has been applied intermittently ever since. The nineteen studies included here deal with cases, covering different periods and parts of the Muslim world, of individuals or groups that used the instrument of takfīr to brand their opponents—either persons, groups or even institutions—as u…
Two Castilian political myths and al-Andalus
The thirteenth-century Poema de Fernán González recounts how the Count Fernán González obtained the independence of Castille thanks to a skilful bargaining for a horse and a falcon with the king of León. It also tells us that the ancestor of the Count was one of the two judges who had ruled Castille during the vacancy of royal power following the death of King Alfonso II of Asturias (d. 842). Those two judges were known by names that refer to the…
Dhimmīs in Fatimid Egypt: A View from the Islamic West
This paper is intended as an epilogue and concludes the papers of this collection by analyzing their content from the specific vantage point of a comparison with parallel developments and phenomena in the Maghrib and particularly in Islamic Spain (al-Andalus). The issues studied in the collection are thus reviewed in a wider geographical and chronological context
Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
In the middle ages, from Baghdad to Barcelona, significant communities of religious minorities resided in the midst of polities ruled by Christians and Muslims: Jews and Christians throughout the Muslim world (but particularly from Iraq westward), lived as dhimmis, protected but subordinate minorities; while Jews (and to a lesser extent Muslims) were found in numerous places in Byzantine and Latin Europe.Legists ( Jewish, Christian and Muslim) fo…
Holy places in Umayyad al-Andalus
While for the sixth/twelfth century onwards there is no lack of data allowing the recovery of the sacred geography of al-Andalus, such data are scarce for the earlier period. This article surveys the available information for Umayyad al-Andalus and how it relates to the different strata of the population, analysing it within the context of the Islamicization
Introducción.El control del conocimiento en las sociedades islámicas
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The legal status of ḏimmī-s in the Islamic West (second/eighth-ninth/fifteenth centuries)
The first monograph devoted to the legal status of religious minorities status accorded to dimmī-s ( Jews and Christians) in the Muslim law in the medieval Muslim west (the Maghreb and Muslim Spain). The articles in this volume provide numerous examples of the richness and complexity of interreligious relations in Medieval Islam and the reactions of jurists to those relations. The studies brought together in this volume provide an important contr…
Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker
La afrenta de Corpes y la autoría árabe del Cantar de Mio Cid
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The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honour of Harald Motzki
For many Muslims, the textual sources of Islam provide the guiding principles on which they base their beliefs. These texts have also been studied by Western scholars of Islam for centuries. Most of their work has focussed on the historicity of the texts, often at the expense of the study of Muslims' highly diverse interpretation and application of these sources in everyday life. This volume provides new insights into the transmission of these so…
Islamisation et arabisation de l’Occident musulman médiéval (viie-xiie siècle)
Dès le viie siècle, les premières expéditions musulmanes touchent l'Afrique du Nord encore partiellement dominée par Byzance. Elles atteignent le Maghreb extrême à l'aube du viiie siècle et s'étendent ensuite au-delà du détroit de Gibraltar. De l'actuelle Tunisie partent les contingents musulmans qui mettent le pied en Sicile au ixe siècle, plaçant l'île sous domination islamique pendant deux siècles. L'islamisation, entendue comme la constructio…
Conversion, ancestry and universal religion: The case of the Almohads in the Islamic West (sixth/twelfth–seventh/thirteenth centuries)
The forced conversion of Jews and Christians stands out among the most puzzling policies implemented at the beginning of the Almohad revolutionary movement. In this article, the reasons behind such decision are reviewed again 1 1My presentation at the Seminar “Inter‐faith Relations in Islam,” organized by Amira Bennison and María Angeles Gallego and held at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, 15–16 December 2008, co…
Introduction: Spatial, ritual and representational aspects of public violence in Islamic societies (7th–19th centuries CE): Maribel Fierro
The Legal Policies of the Almohad Caliphs and Ibn Rushd's Bidayat Al-Mujtahid
Research for this article was carried out within the project PB96-0867 granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education
Al-Asfar
"Alfonso X "The Wise: The Last Almohad Caliph
When dealing with the prolific intellectual output during the reign of Alfonso X, known to be indebted to Arabic sources, hardly any reference is made to the Almohad context. It is particularly striking that Almohad culture is even ignored when referring to the influence of Averroism. It was in fact the Almohad caliphs who encouraged the development of Aristotelian philosophy, which interest in philosophy and knowledge formed part of the "sapient…
Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
In the middle ages, from Baghdad to Barcelona, significant communities of religious minorities resided in the midst of polities ruled by Christians and Muslims: Jews and Christians throughout the Muslim world (but particularly from Iraq westward), lived as dhimmis, protected but subordinate minorities; while Jews (and to a lesser extent Muslims) were found in numerous places in Byzantine and Latin Europe.Legists ( Jewish, Christian and Muslim) fo…
Decapitation Of Christians And Muslims In The Medieval Iberian Peninsula: Narratives, Images, Contemporary Perceptions
Research Article| January 01 2008 Decapitation Of Christians And Muslims In The Medieval Iberian Peninsula: Narratives, Images, Contemporary Perceptions Maribel Fierro Maribel Fierro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (2): 137–164. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659647 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Maribel Fierro; Decapitation Of Christians And …
Idrah'ū l-hudūd bi-l-shubuhāt: When Lawful Violence Meets Doubt
This article explores the origin and diffusion of the legal saying, which stated that God's sanctions were not to be applied in cases where there was room for doubt (idra'ū l-hudūd bi-l-shubuhāt), and how it was transformed into a Prophetic saying that was employed mainly by Hanafis and Mālikīs, and rejected by the Hanbalīs and the Zāhirī Ibn Hazm. Behind these developments there is the tension between two equally compelling needs in the early Is…
The polemic about thekarāmāt al-awliyā' and the development of Ṣūfism in al-Andalus (fourth/tenth-fifth/eleventh centuries)
The flourishing of Ṣūfism in al-Andalus during the first half of the sixth/twelfth century with mystics like Ibn al-'Arīf, Ibn Barrajān (who both died in 536/1141) and Ibn Qasī(d. 546/1151) has been interpreted in different ways. For M. Asín Palacios it reflects the influence of the mystical tradition initiated by Ibn Masarra in the second half of the third/ninth century, although he himself does not fail to mention the impossibility of providing…
Conversion, ancestry and universal religion: The case of the Almohads in the Islamic West (sixth/twelfth–seventh/thirteenth centuries)
The forced conversion of Jews and Christians stands out among the most puzzling policies implemented at the beginning of the Almohad revolutionary movement. In this article, the reasons behind such decision are reviewed again 1 1My presentation at the Seminar “Inter‐faith Relations in Islam,” organized by Amira Bennison and María Angeles Gallego and held at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, 15–16 December 2008, co…
Le mahdi Ibn Tûmart et al-Andalus: L'élaboration de la légitimité almohade
Le mahdisme est l'une des voies offerte par la tradition musulmane pour légitimer un chef politique, particulièrement lorsque le but est de rénover la société et d'éliminer les vieilles élites politico-religieuses.Le mahdisme peut être appréhendé comme la perpétuation du modèle du khalîfat Allâh c'est-à-dire du chef légitimé en tant que représentant de Dieu sur Terre, modèle conservé par les chiites ; les sunnites favorisant le modèle khalifat ra…
Islamic Law in Al-Andalus
La heterodoxia en al-Andalus durante el Periodo Omeya
La heterodoxia en al-Andalus durante el Periodo Omeya
Ibn Hazm et le zindiq juif
Fierro Maribel. Ibn Hazm et le zindiq juif. In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°63-64, 1992. Minorités religieuses dans l'Espagne médiévale. pp. 81-89
The polemic about thekarāmāt al-awliyā' and the development of Ṣūfism in al-Andalus (fourth/tenth-fifth/eleventh centuries)
The flourishing of Ṣūfism in al-Andalus during the first half of the sixth/twelfth century with mystics like Ibn al-'Arīf, Ibn Barrajān (who both died in 536/1141) and Ibn Qasī(d. 546/1151) has been interpreted in different ways. For M. Asín Palacios it reflects the influence of the mystical tradition initiated by Ibn Masarra in the second half of the third/ninth century, although he himself does not fail to mention the impossibility of providing…
Kitab al-Bida
Al-Asfar
A: Reviews: general
BYZANTIUM AND THE EARLY ISLAMIC CONQUESTS. By WALTER E. KAEGI. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii, 313pp. 5 maps, 2 pp. of plates. £45.00 (hb). STUDIES IN EARLY MUSLIM JURISPRUDENCE. By NORMAN CALDER. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. xiv, 257pp. £35.00. GOLDEN ROADS: MIGRATION, PILGRIMAGE AND TRAVEL IN MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN ISLAM. Edited by IAN RICHARD NETTON. Richmond (Surrey), Curzon Press, 1993. xvii, 193pp. £35 (hb), £16.99 (pb). …
On an Alleged Tenth Century Muwaššaha
Spanish Scholarship on Islamic Law
This essay begins by situating Spanish scholarship on Islamic law in the wider context of Arabic and Islamic studies in Spain, stressing two salient characteristics of the latter: its concentration on Andalusī subjects and its relative isolation from the rest of Western scholarship. I then review the production of Spanish scholarship in the field of Islamic law, focusing on three historical periods: the first steps in the nineteenth century (Gaya…
Batinism in Al-Andalus. Maslama b. Qasim al-Qurtubi (d. 353/964), Author of the "Rutbat al-Hakim" and the "Ghayat al-Hakim (Picatrix)"
Les manuscrits indiquent que le Rutba et le Ghāya sont des oeuvres qui datent du X e siecle. L'atmosphere intellectuelle d'al-Andalus au X e siecle semble bien plus complexe qu'on a voulu le croire. Il ne s'agit pas d'un espace conservateur et fanatique comme on l'a decrit. Maslama b. Qāsim temoigne du processus de reception en al-Andalus des doctrines philosophiques et bātini provenant des lieux centraux de l'islam. En meme temps, on constate un…
Manuscritos en al-Andalus. El Proyecto H.A.T.A. (Historia de los Autores y Transmisores Andalusíes)
Presentación del proyecto Historia de los Autores y Transmisores Andalusíes (H.A.T.A.), iniciado en 1988 con financiación del antiguo Instituto de Cooperación con el Mundo Árabe y llevado a cabo en el Departamento de Estudios Árabes (Instituto de Filología - CSIC). El objetivo del H.A.T.A. es ofrecer al investigador la información relativa a la producción intelectual andalusí contenida en las fuentes primarias, principales obras secundarias y cat…
Los mawālī de ‛Abd al-Raḥmān I
Son numerosos los datos de que disponemos sobre los clientes (mawālī), tanto directos como indirectos, de ‛Abd al-Raḥmān I. En este artículo se ofrece una sistematización de esos datos, así como su análisis dentro del contexto de la actividad política y militar llevada a cabo por el primer emir omeya de al-Andalus
The Legal Policies of the Almohad Caliphs and Ibn Rushd's Bidayat Al-Mujtahid
Research for this article was carried out within the project PB96-0867 granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and f…
Islam in Europe: The Politics of Religion and Community (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)
Reseña de los libros Islam in Europe: The Politics of Religion and Community (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship), editado por Steven Vertovec y Ceri Peach, publicado en St. Martin's Press, el año 1997; Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity Among British Muslims: Bradford in the 1990s, de Philip Lewis, publicado en I.B. Tauris and Company Ltd., el año 1994; Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe, editado por Barbara Daly Me…
El Tahḏīb de al-Barāḏi‛ī en al-Andalus: A propósito de un manuscrito aljamiado de la Real Academia de la Historia
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Spiritual Alienation and Political Activism: The Gurabā' in Al-Andalus During the Sixth/Twelfth Century
Les califes almohades ont domine l'islam occidental et l'Andalousie pendant le 12e siecle et la premiere moitie du 13e siecle. L'A. etudie dans quelle mesure l'ideologie almohade, ou l'alienation spirituelle de la societe non-almohade et l'activisme politique se melangent, a constitue un fait nouveau dans l'islam occidental. Il rend compte de l'utilisation du hadith l'islam commence comme un etranger et retournera a cet etat comme il a commence c…
Le mahdi Ibn Tûmart et al-Andalus: L'élaboration de la légitimité almohade
Le mahdisme est l'une des voies offerte par la tradition musulmane pour légitimer un chef politique, particulièrement lorsque le but est de rénover la société et d'éliminer les vieilles élites politico-religieuses.Le mahdisme peut être appréhendé comme la perpétuation du modèle du khalîfat Allâh c'est-à-dire du chef légitimé en tant que représentant de Dieu sur Terre, modèle conservé par les chiites ; les sunnites favorisant le modèle khalifat ra…
Islamic Law in Al-Andalus
Religious dissension in al-Andalus: Ways of exclusion and inclusion
Cuáles fueron los mecanismos mediante los cuales se llevó a cabo la exclusión de herejes, apóstatas e innovadores en una sociedad islámica pre-moderna como la andalusí? ¿Cuáles fueron los mecanismos o las estrategias mediante los cuales los acusados de herejía o desviación religiosa lograron no ser excluidos de la comunidad o, en el caso de serlo, consiguieron la reincorporación a su medio social y religioso? Este artículo busca dar respuesta a e…
Documentos legales en fuentes andalusíes
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Tkfāt al-barbariyya y el destino de los omeyas en al-Andalus
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Judíos y musulmanes en al-Andalus y el Magreb: Contactos intelectuales. Judíos en tierras de Islam I
Los estudios aquí reunidos versan sobre el contacto intelectual entre musulmanes y judíos que tuvo lugar en el Occidente islámico medieval. El eje crucial de dicho contacto fue la lengua árabe, pues la arabización de los judíos posibilitó la comunicación diaria y literaria entre dos comunidades. ¿En qué consistió esa comunicación en el campo intelectual? ¿Hasta qué punto las partes implicadas se vieron afectadas por igual? ¿Qué disciplinas se pre…
Women as Prophets in Islam
The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi'i Witness. An Edition and English Translation of lbn alHaytham's Kitab al-Munaharat by Wilfred Madelung and Paul E. Walker. (New York: LB. Tauris in asso…
Fatimid intellectual production contains some remarkable personal memoirsthat deserve a joint study. The Kitab al-MunaJ?arat (The Book of Discussions)by lbn al-Haytham is one example of this kind ofliterature. Abu 'AbdAllah Ja·far ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Aswad ibn al-Haytham wasa Qayrawani scholar of Sh i persuasion when the Fatimid caliphate wasestablished in North Africa. In this Ki tab, he recorded his meetings and conversationswith th…
Las hijas de al-Ḥakam I y la revuelta del Arrabal
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