‘Fatḥ, Invasion, and Reconquista: Conflicting Legitimacies in Medieval Iberia’
MEDIEVAL WEEK 2021
The Medieval Studies Research Group, the Global and Transregional Studies Research Group, and the REEC/EDI Committee of LSHH invite you to join us for this free public lecture.
Speaker: Dr. Alejandro García-Sanjuán
Alejandro García-Sanjuán earned a PhD in Medieval history from the University of Seville in and is currently Profesor Titular (Senior Lecturer) of Medieval History at the University of Huelva (Spain). His major publications include Jihad. The rules of war in classical Islamic doctrine (Marcial Pons, 2020, in Spanish), Coexistence and conflict. Religious minorities in Medieval Iberia (University of Granada, 2015, in Spanish) and The Islamic Conquest of Iberia and the misrepresentation of the Past (Marcial Pons, 2019, 2nd edition, in Spanish, awarded with the Drouin Prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from Paris), and Till God Inherits the Earth. Islamic Pious Endowments in al-Andalus (Brill, 2007).
As well as invited lectures at Madrid, Paris, Hamburg, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon, Mexico, and presentations at several important international conferences and venues (Amsterdam, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Cambridge), García-Sanjuán carried out research stays at prestigious international academic institutions such as l’Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Damascus), l’École Pratique d’Hautes Études (Paris) and the Universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg. Likewise he was visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) in 2019 and currently holds a visiting professorship from the Leverhulme Foundation at the University of Leicester over the first half of 2020.
His ongoing research addresses the reception of al-Andalus in modern Spanish culture and scholarship, with a special focus on the highly controversial notion of Reconquista and its current ideological reengineering among conservative and far-right academic and politic outlets.
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