Maribel Fierro

María Isabel Fierro Bello (born 1956) is a researcher on Middle Eastern studies at the Spanish National Research Council's humanities branch in Madrid, Spain. Fierro has served as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Divinity School in Chicago, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, The Institute for Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Works Conference proceedings Public violence in Islamic societies. Edited with Christian Lange. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 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, 2010.

Lectures "Heresy and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus," presented at the University of Chicago Divinity School in Chicago, Friday, October 14, 2011.

Original works Abd al-Rahman III: The First Cordoban Caliph. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2005. 160 pgs.