Dr. María Isabel Fierro Bello (born 1956) is a researcher on Middle Eastern studies at the
Spanish National Research Council
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's humanities branch in
Madrid
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Spain
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.Maribel Fierro , Visiting Professor in Islamic Studies at the
University of Chicago Divinity School
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. Accessed February 23, 2013. Fierro has served as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Divinity School in
Chicago
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School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
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Paris
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The Institute for Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Princeton
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American Philosophical Society
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Works
Conference proceedings
*''Public violence in Islamic societies''. Edited with Christian Lange.
Edinburgh
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Edinburgh University Press
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History
Edinburgh University Press was founded in the 1940s and became a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Edinburgh ...
, 2009. 304 pgs., 24 cm.
Edited works
*''The New Cambridge History of Islam; The Western Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries'', vol. 2. New York:
Cambridge University Press
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, 2010.
Lectures
*"Heresy and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus," presented at the University of Chicago Divinity School in Chicago, Friday, October 14, 2011.
*"The Turban and its Meanings in Al-Andalus," presented at the
UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Urbana, Illinois
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, Oct 17, 2011.
Original works
*''Abd al-Rahman III: The First Cordoban Caliph''.
Oxford
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Oneworld Publications
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International Journal of Middle East Studies
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See also
* Middle East Research and Information Project
* Association for ...
, vol. 39, # 2, May 2007. Pgs. 304-305. Cambridge University Press.
Virtual International Authority File
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History
Discussion about having a c ...