MERCEDES GARCÍA-ARENAL RODRÍGUEZ

MERCEDES GARCÍA-ARENAL RODRÍGUEZ

ERC Project “CORPI: Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics, Interaction: Early Modern Iberia and Beyond

The project is concerned with questions of religious change and specifically of the change brought about by forced mass conversion in late medieval/early modern Iberia. CORPI focuses on the adversarial relationships reconceived as dependencies, against a complex backdrop of dramatic religious change.

Bio

I got the PhD in Arabic and Islam from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1976). I was a post-doctoral fellow in the London School of Oriental and African Studies (1976-1978). In 1981, I received tenure as a Junior Researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investiagaciones Científicas, where I have been a Research Professor since 1990. I was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1988-89), and Directeur d’ Etudes de l’ EHESS (Paris) in the spring term of 1992. Member of the Steering Committee, CSIC (2003-2008) and Member of the Comisión de Área de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC (2005-2008). . I have also invested a lot of time and energy in being Directing Editor of the journal Al-Qantara. Revista de Estudios Árabes, from 1999 till 2013. I am also on the editorial board of several scholarly journals: The Maghreb Review (1999-present), Hésperis-Tamuda (2008-present) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2010-present), Mediterranean Historical Review (2009-present), and Journal of Early Modern History (2012-present). I have been PI of several research grants funded by the Spanish national government and I have participated in international projects such as “Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World”, funded as an à la carte project by the European Science Foundation. I was also PI of the Research Program “Islam y disidencia religiosa en la Europa protestante y en la católica”, CCHS-CSIC (2010-2013). Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant: “CORPI” and co-ordinator of the ERC Synergy Grant: “The European Qur’an, EuQu”.

Bio

I got the PhD in Arabic and Islam from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1976). I was a post-doctoral fellow in the London School of Oriental and African Studies (1976-1978). In 1981, I received tenure as a Junior Researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investiagaciones Científicas, where I have been a Research Professor since 1990. I was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1988-89), and Directeur d’ Etudes de l’ EHESS (Paris) in the spring term of 1992. Member of the Steering Committee, CSIC (2003-2008) and Member of the Comisión de Área de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC (2005-2008). . I have also invested a lot of time and energy in being Directing Editor of the journal Al-Qantara. Revista de Estudios Árabes, from 1999 till 2013. I am also on the editorial board of several scholarly journals: The Maghreb Review (1999-present), Hésperis-Tamuda (2008-present) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2010-present), Mediterranean Historical Review (2009-present), and Journal of Early Modern History (2012-present). I have been PI of several research grants funded by the Spanish national government and I have participated in international projects such as “Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World”, funded as an à la carte project by the European Science Foundation. I was also PI of the Research Program “Islam y disidencia religiosa en la Europa protestante y en la católica”, CCHS-CSIC (2010-2013). Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant: “CORPI” and co-ordinator of the ERC Synergy Grant: “The European Qur’an, EuQu”.

ERC Project “CORPI: Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics, Interaction: Early Modern Iberia and Beyond

The project is concerned with questions of religious change and specifically of the change brought about by forced mass conversion in late medieval/early modern Iberia. CORPI focuses on the adversarial relationships reconceived as dependencies, against a complex backdrop of dramatic religious change.