Cristina de la Puente is researcher at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) since 1996. She obtained her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic studies at the Complutense University (1994). She enjoyed predoctoral and postdoctoral stays at the University of Tübingen (1992-1996).

She is an Arabist, author of books and articles on different lines of research, mainly the history of al-Andalus, social history and Islamic law. She has participated in and directed national and international research projects. She has also been a member of the Science Europe Humanities Committee for four years (2012-2015).

She has held different positions of responsibility at CSIC: Coordinator of the Humanities and Social Sciences Area of ​​the CSIC (2012-2014), Deputy Vice President of Internationalization (2014), Deputy Vice President of Scientific and Technical Areas (2015-2016) and Vice President of Research Scientific and Technical CSIC (2016-2017).

Bibliography

• Puente, C. de la (ed.), Identidades marginales (Estudios onomástico biográficos de al-Andalus XIII), Madrid: CSIC, 2003. ISBN 84-00-08146-3
• Meouak y C. de la Puente (eds.), Connected stories. Contacts, Traditions and Transmissions in premodern Mediterranean Islam. Berlín: De Gruyter, 2022 ISBN 978-3-11-077256-2 ISSN 2198-0853

Articles and chapters :

• 1998 : Puente, C. de la, « Vivre et mourir pour Dieu, oeuvre et héritage d'Abū `Alī al-S̟adafī », Studia Islamica (Princeton-París) 88, 77-102.
• 1999 : Puente, C. de la, « The Prayer upon the Prophet Muhammad (tas̟liya): A Manifestation of Islamic Religiosity », Medieval Encounters (March, special issue), 121-129.
• 2007: Puente, C. de la, “Los límites legales del concubinato: normas y tabúes de la esclavitud sexual”, Al-Qant̟ara XXVIII-2 (2007), 409-433
• 2008 : Puente, C. de la, “Slaves in al-Andalus through mālikī wathā’iq works (4^th – 6^th centuries H./10^th – 12^th centuries CE): marriage and slavery as factors of social categorisation”, Annales Islamologiques (IFAO) 42, 187-212.
• 2013 : Puente, C. de la, “Free fathers, slave mothers and their children: A contribution to the study of family structures in al-Andalus”, Imago Temporis Aevum VII, 27-44.
• 2017 : Puente, C. de la, “The Ethnic Origins of Female Slaves in al-Andalus”, en Matthew Gordon – Kathryn A. Hain (eds.), Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History, Nueva York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 6,124-142.
• 2021 : Puente, C. de la, “Prophetic Veneration in the Nasrid Kingdom Of Granada through the Creation And Transmission of Ḥadīth Musalsal Works (7^th -9^th H./13^th -15^th C.E.)”, Al-Qanṭara, XLII, 1 (2021), e09. doi: https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2021.009, 1-22.
• 2021 : Puente, C. de la, “Islamic Law, Slavery, and Feelings. A Fourth/Tenth Century Andalusi Notarial Model on the Manumission of an Unruly and Bad-Tempered Female Slave”, Hawwa 19, 3, 294-313. Brill, DOI:10.1163/15692086_BJA10026
• 2021: Puente, C. de la, “Ties before and after Manumission: Slaves under a Manumission Contract (mukātabūn) according to the Andalusi Notarial Manuals (10^th-12^th Centuries)”, en Clara Almagro y Filomena Barros (eds.), Forms of Unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean, Évora: CIDEHUS (https://books.openedition.org/cidehus/18365).

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