Veerle Adriaenssens
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Veerle Adriaenssens studied Romance Languages at the University of Ghent. Afterwards she studied Languages and Cultures of the Middle East, also at the University of Ghent. She graduated in 2009 with a thesis titled: "The Iberic Peninsula: dār-al-ḥarb of dār-al-islām? Fatwas of North African Jurists between 1400-1526." The main subject of this thesis was the (il)legitimity of the stay of muslims in non-Islamic countries, with particular focus on the situation of the Muslim population of Christian Spain at the end of the 15th century. The corpus of this research was formed by the fatwas of North African jurists of this period, particularly those of the Malikite jurist Al-Wanšarīsī .
At the moment she is preparing a PhD within the framework of the ERC project: “The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate . Political Traditions and State Formation in 15th century Egypt and Syria.” The objective of this project is to shed a new light on the changing power structures and the political networks of that period, by conducting a prosopographical research based on biographical dictionaries and chronicles.
Main research interests: Islamic political culture, Muslim minorities, Al-Andalus