Prof. Dr. Hagit Amirav
Humanities, Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
Humanities
History of Islam
History of al-Andalus
History of the Islamic West
Islamic Law
Religious dissension in Islamic societies
2005 Abd al-Rahman III: The first Cordoban caliph, Oneworld: Books for thoughtful people.
1993 Abu Bakr al-Turtushi, Kitab al-hawadith wa-l-bida' (El libro de las novedades y las innovaciones), transl. and study, Madrid: CSIC.
1988 Muhammad b. Waddah al-Qurtubi (m. 287/900), Kitab al-bida` (Tratado contra las innovaciones), ed. and study, Madrid: CSIC
2010 vol. II The Western Islamic world, eleventh-eighteenth centuries de The New Cambridge History of Islam, Cambridge University Press. 2009 with Christian Lange, Public violence in Islamic societies: Power, discipline and the construction of the public sphere (7th-19th centuries CE), Edinburgh Univ. Press.
2008 With Francisco García Fitz, El cuerpo derrotado: cómo trataban musulmanes y cristianos a los enemigos vencidos (Península Ibérica, ss. VIII-XIII), Madrid: CSIC
2005 P. Cressier , M. Fierro and L. Molina (eds.), Los almohades: problemas y perspectivas, Madrid: CSIC / Casa de Velázquez.
2011 'Colors and the quest for political legitimacy in the Islamic West', And Diverse Are Their Hues: Color in Islamic Art and Culture (The Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art), ed. Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, New Haven: Yale University Press, 78–97.
2011 "A Muslim land without Jews or Christians: Almohad policies regarding the 'protected people'", Tischler, Matthias M. und Fidora, Alexander (Hrsg.), Christlicher Norden – Muslimischer Süden. Ansprüche und Wirklichkeiten von Christen, Juden und Muslimen auf der Iberischen Halbinsel im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter, Aschendorff Verlag, 2011, pp. 231–47
2009 "Alfonso X the Wise, the last Almohad caliph?", Medieval Encounters 15 (2009), 175–198.
2008 "Decapitation of Christians and Muslims in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula: narratives, images, contemporary perceptions", Comparative Literature Studies, 45/ 2, 137–64
2006 "Ill-treated women seeking divorce: the Qur'anic two arbiters and judicial practice among the Malikis in al-Andalus and North Africa", in M.Kh. Masud, R. Peters and D. Powers (ed.), Dispensing Justice inIslam: Qadis and their Judgments, Leiden: Brill, 323–348.
Knowledge, heresy and political culture in the Islamic West (eighth-fifteenth centuries), Advanced Research Grant, European Research Council, 2009 – 2014
The public display of violence in Islamic societies, CSIC / Spanish Ministry of Education, 2006
Violence and punishment in premodern Islamic societies (Violencia y castigo en sociedades islámicas pre-modernas) al-Andalus and Maghreb, Spanish Ministry of Education, 2002 – 2006
Member of the Committee on Philosophy, Philology and Linguistic -Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora (CNEAI), Spain, 2008 – 2010
Review Session on Philosophy and Religious Studies, Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments to Promote Science and Research at German Universities, 2006
Board of Directors (founding member) The International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, 2004 – 2009
Sectional editor (Religious sciences), Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition, 2002
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Humanities, Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
Humanities, social history, cultural history, historical anthropology, history of science, gender history
Humanities, Archaeological Prehistory, Paleovegetation and paleolandscape reconstruction, use of plant resources by past populations, plant diet, fossil plant microremains (phytoliths)
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
The Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation has elected eight researchers from the humanities and social sciences for its Anneliese Maier research award, among them the Islamic scholar Mariel Fierro.