Senior Researchers
Fernando Rodríguez Mediano is a Research Scientist (Investigador Científico) at the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council). His areas of expertise are: the Sociology of religious elites in Morocco (15th-17th centuries); Moroccan hagiographical and biographical literature; relations between Spain and Morocco (16th-17th centuries); Spanish Protectorate over Northern Morocco (1912-1956); and the origins of Spanish early modern Orientalism (17th century). His publications include: 'Familias de Fez' (ss. XV-XVII), Madrid, CSIC, 1995; 'The Orient in Spain. Converted Muslims', 'The Forged Lead Books of Granada, and the Rise of Orientalism', Leiden-Boston, Brill, Numen Book Series, 142, 2013 (with Mercedes García-Arenal); 'Justice, amour et crainte dans les recits hagiographiques marocains', Studia Islamica, 90 (2000), 85-104; 'Justice, crime et châtiment au Maroc au XVIe siècle', Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, mayo-junio 1996, 611-27; 'Fragmentos de orientalismo español del s. XVII', Hispania, 66, n1 222 (ene.-abr. 2006), 243-276; 'Sacred Calendars: Calculation of the Hegira as a Historiographical Problem in Early Modern Spain', Journal of Early Modern History, 20 (2016), 229-265.
Professor Ferenc Tóth (1967) is a senior research fellow of the Institute of History at the Research Centre for the Humanities (formerly RC of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). His research areas include the history of conflicts between Christianity and Islam (especially Turkish Wars in Hungary in 17th and 18th Centuries), the history of French-Hungarian Connections in the early modern Period (1664-1815), Hungarian orientalists during the 18th Century and the history of the activity of Hungarian agents in French service (for example François baron de Tott). He has published 25 books and over 200 studies including 'Ascension sociale et identité nationale. Intégration de l'immigration hongroise dans la société française au cours du XVIIIe siècle (1692-1815)', Budapest (Officina Hungarica IX), 2000, 'Saint-Gotthard 1664, Une bataille européenne', Panazol (Ed. Lavauzelle), 2007, 'Un diplomate militaire français en Europe orientale à la fin de l’ancien régime. François de Tott (1733-1793)', Istanbul (Editions Isis), 2011, he also published the memoirs of Baron de Tott in both French and Hungarian editions.
Gerard Wiegers (PhD Leiden University 1991, cum laude) is Full Professor of Comparative Religious Studies in the Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and a specialist in the History and Comparative Study of Religions and the history of Islam in Europe and the Muslim West. Previously he was full professor of Religious Studies, in particular Islam, at Radboud University Nijmegen and associate professor and Research Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and Arts (KNAW) at Leiden University. His research concentrates on the relations between Islam and other religions in Europe and the Muslim West and the history of Islamic and Jewish minorities in Europe and the Middle East. He is supervisor of eight PhD students. Gerard Wiegers holds visiting research fellowships at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid and the Center for Religious Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. He is a member of the editorial board of a number of books series in the field and has directed research projects funded by private and public funding organisations, most recently as PI in the HERA funded project Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship and as Project Leader of the NWO funded project Delicate Relations. Muslims and Jews in London and Amsterdam (2014-present). His projects have led to publications in major peer-reviewed journals and book series.
Cándida Ferrero Hernández is Professor Research Fellow Serra Húnter (Latin Philology) at Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is PI of the Islamolatina Group, funded by the projects “Medieval and Modern Sources for the Study of Transcultural Relations in the Mediterranean: Writing and Transmission III” [PID2022-137836NB-C31] and “Islamolatina. Dimensions interculturals del pensament medieval i modern” [2021 SGR 00152 (GRC)]. She is also PI of the BICORE action “Diálogo Religioso y Controversias. Biblioteca Ibérica Digital”. Database hosted at Humanities Library of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Also is member of “The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion 1150-1850” [ERC Synergy Grants 2018 810141]. She is co-author with John Tolan of the volume The Latin Qur’an, 1143–1500: Translation, Transition, Interpretation (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2021).
