Maribel Fierro

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  • Course

    Identidades y doctrinas religiosas en el mundo islámico

    Máster de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos Contemporáneos, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 5 credits ECTS. 

  • Borders and Gates, or Open Spaces? Knowledge Cultures in the Mediterranean during the 14th and 15th centuries

    Chair

    organized by S. Brentjes and J. Ferreiros. Universidad de Sevilla.

  • La visión del otro musulmán en el siglo XII

    Universidad Complutense, Grupo de Investigación UCM (930-347), Fronteras en discusión: Península Ibérica en el s. XII. 

  • Qualifying violence: the treatment of women in times of war in al-Andalus (2nd/8th- 7th/13th centuries)

    Exeter University, Legitimate and illegitimate violence in Islamic thought. 

  • Congress

    Knowledge under control. Religious and political censorship in Islamic societies.

    WOCMES  (World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies) Barcelona.

    Four panels, of which the first three dealt with the premodern period and were organized by Maribel Fierro (CCHS – CSIC, Madrid). The fourth, dealing with the modern period, was organized by Ana Belén Soage (Granada University).
    The first three were financed by ERC ARG KOHEPOCU, together with funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) and the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean (ILC) – Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS-CSIC).
    It has recently been shown that Averroes had to change a previous version of his al-Kashf 'an manahij al-adilla - in which he departed from Ibn Tumart’s doctrine - under the pressure of the Almohad purists who wanted to preserve their founder’s views on anthropomorphism. Censorship and pressure to conform in this case resulted in the alteration of a text and probably influenced Averroes’ "disgrace" and banishment. In other cases, it led to more painful consequences. In these panels, other instances of altered texts as a result of censorship or auto-censhorship will be studied with the aim of exploring how religious and political control in the writing domain was carried out in a variety of contexts.

    PANEL 1. The pre-modern period (organized by Maribel Fierro, CSIC-Madrid).
     Chair: Christopher Melchert (Oxford University)
    BALDA-TILLIER, Monica (Oxford University), « La passion interdite : le martyre d’amour en proie à la censure » ?
    BRENTJES, Sonja (Universidad de Sevilla), “Establishing boundaries for knowledge - Ayyubid, Mamluk and Timurid rulers, functionaries and scholars”.
    EPHRAT, Daphna (The Open University of Israel), “Censuring frivolous imitators and antinomian Sufis in the earlier middle period”
    GÜNTHER, Sebastian (Göttingen University), "Boundaries and Horizons of Learning in al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd"
     
    PANEL 2. The pre-modern period (organized by Maribel Fierro, CSIC-Madrid)
    Chair: Sebastian Günther (Göttingen University)
    FORTE, Francesca (Universitá di Milano), « La censure de l'histoire: Averroès et l'historiographie arabe contemporaine"
    KADDOURI, Samir (Leiden University), “Les 'Abbâdides ont-t-ils imposé une dissimulation par Ibn Hazm de ses opinions politiques dans la seconde version de Kitâb al-Fasl? ».
    MANDALA, Giuseppe (Göttingen University), “Religious and Political Censorship and Martyrdom in Islamic Sicily (9th-11th century)”
    PYROVOLAKI, Marina (Indepent scholar), "Dropping the fetters: pseudo-historical literature and its creative limitations”.
     
    PANEL 3. The pre-modern period (organized by Maribel Fierro, CSIC-Madrid)
    Chair: Sonja Brentjes (University of Seville)
    ALI-DE-UNZAGA, Omar (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London), “Public book burnings in 12th-century Baghdad: The struggle for orthodoxy and the ill fate of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'”
    FIERRO, Maribel (CCHS – CSIC), “The control of knowledge under the Almohads”
    FELIPE, Helena de (Universidad de Alcalá), “Dealing with Berber religious attitudes in the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco”.
    GOMEZ GARCIA, Luz (Universidad Autónoma), “Rethinking self-censorship on Islamic webs: cross-references between Arabic-English-French”.
     
    PANEL 4. The modern period (organized by  Ana Belén Soage, Granada University)
    Chair: Ana Belén Soage (Granada University)
    AMIN, Yasmin (American University in Cairo), ‘Censorship / Freedom of Expression in Islam’
    FELDMAN, Matthew (Northampton University), “Extremism, organisational self-censorship and successful ‘fifth-column discourse’: the cases of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the BNP in England”
    FUENTELSAZ, Jorge (Agencia EFE), “The Muslim Brothers and the Egyptian government”
    AL-JAWAHIRI, Emad (Qadisiya University, Iraq), “A New Study and Translation of al-Khayyam’s Poetry under Censorship in Iraq”.
     

  • Course

    Ibn Hafsun

    Summer course Universidad de Málaga (Archidona)