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.
