Luis F. Bernabé Pons
Luis F. Bernabé Pons is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Modern Philologies at the University of Alicante. His main lines of research focus on the influence of the Arab-Islamic element in Spanish literature and the history and culture of Mudejares and Moriscos. Currently he is director of the Arab and Islamic Studies Research Group “Sharq Al-Andalus” (University of Alicante), and is chair of the journal Sharq Al-Andalus. Estudios Mudéjares y Moriscos. His last work, written with Elisa Ruiz, is Joan Martí de Figuerola. Works. Disputaciones. Lumbre de fe contra el Alcorán (1519–1521), (Leiden, 2024).
Hossain Bouzineb
Hossain Bouzineb is emeritus professor of Spanish at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Mohammed V in Rabat and, since 2000, Spanish Translator in the Cabinet of his Majesty, King Mohamed VI. Among his publications are: Recopilación de los refranes andalusíes de Alonso del Castillo (with Federico Corriente Córdoba (Zaragoza, 1994), Literatura de castigos o adoctri-namientos (Madrid, 1999), and La Alcazaba del Buregreg, hornacheros, andaluces y medio siglo de designios españoles frustrados (Rabat, 2006).
Houssem Eddine Chachia
Houssem Eddine Chachia is Assistant Professor in early modern history at the University of Sfax (Tunisia). He mainly works on minorities in the Mediterranean, particularly the expulsion of the Moriscos. He is interested in the processes and complexities of identity formation, and the relationship between the West and the Arab-Muslim world (especially the Maghreb) in modern era. His publications include: The Sephardim and the Moriscos: The Journey of Expulsion and Installation in the Maghreb (1492–1756), Stories and Itineraries (Beirut, 2015); Entre las orillas de dos mundos. El itinerario del jerife morisco Muḥamed ibn Abd Al-Rafīʿ: de Murcia a Túnez (Murcia, 2017); The Moment of Choice: The Moriscos on the Border of Christianity and Islam (London, 2017).
Mercedes García-Arenal
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (University of Chicago, 2022) and Spanish National Research Award (Ministerio de Cultura, 2019), Mercedes is a Research Professor at the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) in Madrid. PI Coordinator of the ERC-Synergy “EuQu” project, was also PI of a
Catherine Infante
She is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Amherst College. Her research and publications center on the encounters of Christian and Muslim cultures in the early modern Mediterranean and visual and material culture studies. She is the author of The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2022). Her current work extends this investigation on Christian-Muslim relations to focus on women and the circulation of material culture in the early modern world.
Tijana Krstić
Tijana is Professor at the Department of Historical Studies at Central European University in Vienna. She specializes in religious and intellectual history of the early modern Ottoman Empire as well as inter-confessional relations in the Mediterranean and Eurasian contexts. She is the author of Contested Conversions to Islam (Stanford, 2011), and co-editor with Derin Terzioğlu of Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450–c. 1750 (Leiden, 2020) and Entangled Confessionalizations? (Piscataway, 2022).
Amine Oulad Lmaroudia
Amine Oulad is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam where he researches the Moroccan scholar Ibn ʿĀshir’s didactical primer the Murshid al-Muʿīn. His research focuses on tracing the historical evolution of Ibn ʿĀshir’s authority through the analysis of fahāris and tarājim literature and the contemporary perspectives that Dutch Moroccan preachers have towards the Murshid. Amine Oulad Lmaroudia is also an English teacher at the Applied University of Fontys, a politician and a student of Islamic theology under the mentorship of traditional scholars from Morocco.
Bruno Pomara
Bruno Pomara is Associate Professor at Universitat de València. In 2011 he was awarded with the Young Researcher Prize by the FEHM (Fundación Española de Historia Moderna) and in 2016 with the Prize for the Religious History
Bárbara Ruiz-Bejarano
She is honorary professor at the UNESCO-University of Alicante Chair “Islam, Culture and Society” and the Director of Fundación Las Fuentes. She holds a PhD in Islamic Studies and her main research is focused on Muslim communities in non-Islamic societies. She currently works mainly in cultural and economic relations with the Islamic world, and the status of Muslim minorities in Europe.
Ana Struillou
Ana is a Past and Present Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (London). Her doctorate, conducted at the European University Institute in Florence, explored the material culture of travel across the western Mediterranean. Her previous research project, at Exeter College (Oxford) focused on the material culture of Morisco diplomacy across early modern France and Spain. Her research interests include, amongst others, material culture, mobility, and cross-religious relations in the early modern Mediterranean.
Gerard Wiegers
He is Full Professor of History of Religions and the Comparative Study of Religion in the Department of History at the University of Amsterdam. His research concentrates on the relations between Islam and other religions in Europe and the Muslim West, and the history of Islamic and Jewish minorities. Some of his recent publications include (with Gülnaz Sibgatullina, eds.), European Muslims and the Qur’an: Practices of Translation, Interpretation, and Commodification (Berlin, 2023); (with Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld), The Sacro-monte Lead Books and the Parchment of the Torre Turpiana: Granada 1588–1606: General Introduction, Critical Edition, and Translation (Leiden, 2024). He has edited many books and journal articles with Mercedes García-Arenal, such as The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain: A Mediterranean Diaspora (Leiden, 2014); Polemical Encounters: Polemics between Christians, Jews and Muslims in Iberia and beyond (University Park, 2019); and The Iberian Qur’an: From the Middle Ages to the Modern Time (Berlin, 2022).