Mohamed Meouak - Connected Stories: Contacts, Traditions and Transmissions in Premodern Mediterranean Islam

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Allaoua Amara (PhD Universit Paris I Panthon Sorbonne) is Full Professor of Medieval History at the Universit Emir Abdelkader of Constantine (Algeria). He is research associate at the Centre National de Recherches Prhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (Algiers), and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris). His research interests involve the dynamics of historical knowledge in the Muslim West, and the Islamization, settlement, Arabization, cultural transformation, and the Berber dimension in the history of the Medieval Maghreb. He is author of several works like: Constantine mdivale, de la cit mconnue la capitale rgionale. Les Cahiers de Tunisie 223224 (2019): 267297, Labrg de Dbat al-iftir : un texte du IXe/XVe sicle rcemment dit relatif aux saints de la valle du Chlif (Maghreb central) la fin du Moyen ge. Arabica 67.23 (2020): 306313, and Dynamiques du peuplement et transformation socioculturelles dans les oasis du Maghreb central (VIIIeXIVe sicle). In Vivre, circuler et changer sur la bordure septentrionale du Sahara (Antiquit-poque moderne), edited by Stphanie Gudon, 181199. Bordeaux: Ausonius ditions, 2020.

Yassir Benhima (PhD Universit Lumire Lyon 2) is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Universit Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. His main research fields are the following: social history of the Medieval Maghreb, the study of the forms of political territorialization in Morocco during the Late Middle Ages, Muslim powers in the face of Portuguese expansion (Morocco East Africa), and genesis and evolution of Moroccan Islam. Among his recent publications: Le paysage sonore en temps de guerre dans lOccident musulman mdival (XIIeXIVe sicles). In Le recours aux armes. Les cultures politiques dans la pninsule Ibrique et au Maghreb, VIIIeXVe sicles, edited by Daniel Baloup, 8593. Bordeaux: Ausonius ditions, 2018, and Normes fiscales et pouvoir califal au Maghreb au Xe sicle: la fiscalit dans laffrontement idologique entre Fatimides et Omeyyades. In Cultures fiscales en Occident du Xe au XVIIe sicle. tudes offertes Denis Menjot, edited by Florent Garnier et al., 315323. Toulouse: Mridiennes, 2019.

Brbara Boloix-Gallardo (PhD Universidad de Granada) is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Universidad de Granada. Her main area of specialization is the History, Society, and Culture of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, in particular the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (13th15th Centuries), with a special focus on the study of the Andalusi and Maghribi women. To this topic she has devoted a number of papers in international conferences and publications, among which are Beyond the arm. Ibn al-Khab and his privileged knowledge of the royal Nasrid women. In Praising the Tongue of Religion: Essays in Honor of the 700th Anniversary of Ibn al-Khatbs Birth, edited by Brbara Boloix-Gallardo in a special issue of Medieval Encounters 20.4 (2014): 383402, The genealogical legitimization of the Narid dynasty (13th15th centuries): the alleged Anr origins of the Ban Nar. In The Articulation of Power in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib, edited by Amira K. Bennison, 6185. Oxford: Oxford University Press The British Academy, 2014, and Las Sultanas de la Alhambra. Las grandes desconocidas del Reino Nazar de Granada (siglos XIIIXV) (Granada: Editorial Comares Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife, 2013).

Ana Echevarra (PhD University of Edinburgh) is Full Professor of Medieval History at the Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia in Madrid (Spain). She works on relations between Muslims and Christians, especially interreligious polemic, Muslims living under Christian rule, conversion and crusade. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the KHK Dynamics in the History of Religion, Ruhr Universitt Bochum (Germany), the Institute for Advanced Studies, Universitt Konstanz (Germany) and the Woolf Institute (Cambridge). She is now leading the project Christian Society under Muslim Rule: Canon Collections from Medieval Spain funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Among her books, Knights on the Frontier. The Muslim Guard of the Kings of Castile (14101467) (LeidenBoston: Brill, 2009), The City of the Three Mosques: vila and its Muslims in the Middle Ages (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2011), Law and Religious Minorities in Medieval Societies: Between Theory and Praxis, edited with Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala and John Tolan (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), and Circulaciones mudjares y moriscas: redes de contacto y representaciones, edited with Alice Kadri and Yolanda Moreno (Madrid: CSIC, 2018).

Miquel Forcada (PhD Universidad de Barcelona) is Full Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Universidad de Barcelona. He has worked extensively on the history of rational sciences in al-Andalus. His main interests are, on the one hand, the intersections between science, medicine and philosophy; on the other, the relationship between science, society and religion. He has written several studies about the science in early al-Andalus (ninth-tenth centuries). Among his recent publications: Books from Abroad: The Evolution of Science and Philosophy in Umayyad al-Andalus. Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 5.1 (2017): 5585, The reception of Galen after Avicenna (Eleventh-Twelfth centuries). In Brills Companion of the Reception of Galen, edited by Petros B. Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser, 227243. Brill: LeidenBoston, 2019, and Bronze and Gold. Al-Frb on Medicine. Oriens 48.34 (2020): 367415.

Daniel G. Knig (PhD Universitt Bonn) holds the chair for the history of religions at the Universitt Konstanz. Trained as a Latin medievalist historian and an Arabist at the universities of Salamanca and Bonn, his research focuses on various dimensions of Christian-Muslim relations in the wider Mediterranean, including issues of mutual perception and documentation, forms of exchange and hybridization, and the reception of medieval Christian-Muslim relations. These themes are addressed in his monograph Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), the collected volume Latin and Arabic: Entangled Histories (Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2019), and the essay Der Islam und die Genese Europas. Zwischen Ideologie und Geschichtswissenschaft (Saarbrcken: Universittsverlag, 2019), which analyses theories explaining the impact of the Islamic sphere on the genesis of Europe.

Mohamed Meouak (PhD Universit Lumire Lyon 2) is Full Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Universidad de Cdiz. His main areas of research are: habitats, landscapes, settlement patterns and rural communities in the Central Eastern Maghreb (Middle Ages); vernacular Arabic lexicon of the Maghreb in Arab-Berber sources (Middle Ages modern period), and historical linguistics and languages in contact between Maghreb and Sahel (Middle Ages modern period). Among his recent books: