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Ana Luísa Sérvulo Miranda. PhD in History (Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2022), with the thesis "Ulemas do Garb al-Andalus no séc. 5H/XI. Análise a partir da Prosopografía de los Ulemas de al-Andalus (EEA-CSIC)", supervised by Professor Hermenegildo Fernandes, approved with honour and distinction. MA in O Sul Ibérico e o Mediterrâneo (FL-ULisboa, 2011). BA in History (FL-ULisboa, 2008) and BA in Journalism (ISCSP, 2003). Postdoc fellow at Arqueologia da Cor. Researcher at Laqv/Requimte, CH-ULisboa and UNIARQ. Main research fields: History of al-Andalus, Medieval History (with a focus on border societies and cultures), and History of the Mediterranean.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Luísa Sérvulo Miranda

Citation names

  • Miranda, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9C1D-FC9D-01DD
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1990-685X

Email addresses

  • alsmiranda@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Centro de História, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Arab Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Hebrew Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/03/01 - 2022/02/25
Concluded
 History (Doutoramento)
Major in Medieval History
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Ulemas do Garb al-Andalus no séc. 5/XI. Análise a partir da Prosopografía de los Ulemas de al-Andalus (EEA-CSIC)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with honour and distinction
2008 - 2011
Concluded
 O Sul Ibérico e o Mediterrâneo (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"O Sudoeste do Gharb al-Andalus nos séculos VIII e IX: relações sociais e território" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2005 - 2008
Concluded
 History (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 17
1994 - 2003
Concluded
 Journalism (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 13
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/08/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/02/15 - 2019/07/31 Science and Technology Management Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal
2013/03 - 2017/02/28 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/07/01 - 2019/01/31 Office secretary at PIUDHist Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/08/01 - Current Arqueologia da cor /LAQV@REQUIMTE
PTDC/ART-OUT/5992/2020
Post-doc Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Miranda, Ana. Ulemas do Gharb al-Andalus no século das taifas (5H./ XI D. C.). O contributo da Prosopografía de los Ulemas de al-Andalus (EEA-CSIC) (upcoming). Madrid, Spain: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. 2025.
Book chapter
  1. Miranda, Ana. "The Mosque as a learning space in 11th century al-Andalus". In Construir e Reconstruir na Europa Urbana Medieval, edited by Amélia Aguiar Andrade e Gonçalo Melo da Silva, 503-515. Lisboa, Portugal: IEM – Instituto de Estudos Medievais / Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide, 2023.
    Published
  2. Miranda, Ana. "Uma matriz medieval islâmica na formação do Reino?". In Atualizar a História, 27-36. Lisbon, Portugal: Desassossego, 2022.
    Published
  3. Miranda, Ana. "Love Thine Enemy? Conflict and Co-operation between the Petty Kingdoms of Badajoz and Seville in Eleventh-Century al-Andalus". In War, Diplomacy and Peacemaking in Medieval Iberia. United Kingdom, 2021.
    Published
  4. Miranda, Ana. "De Córdova a Meca: a peregrinação dos letrados no al-Andalus do século XI". In Soteriologias, Identidades e Salvação. Portugal: CH-ULisboa, 2021.
    Published
  5. Miranda, Ana. "Al-Dalfa' and the political role of the umm al-walad in the late Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus". In A Companion to Global Queenship, edited by Woodacre, Elena. Leeds, United Kingdom: ARC Humanities Press, 2018.
    Published
  6. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "Door to the Mediterranean: port activity in late Islamic Lisbon". In Las Sociedades Portuarias de la Europa Atlántica en la Edad Media, 213-248. Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2016.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Miranda, Ana. "Beyond Art Technical Sources: Understanding colour production in Andalusi texts". Paper presented in Internacional Symposium Archaeology of Colour. The production of polychromy in sculpture up to the 16th century, 2024.
  2. Miranda, Ana. "A mesquita: um espaço sagrado polifuncional". Lisboa, 2023.
  3. Miranda, Ana. "Cohesion and discord among the ulama of al-Andalus". Leiden, 2022.
  4. Miranda, Ana. ""To make oneself descend from the noblest lineage": tribe, genealogy, and socio-political memory building in 11th century al-Andalus". Paper presented in V International Congress for Young Researchers in Middle Ages, Évora, 2022.
  5. Miranda, Ana. "História do al-Andalus. Uma visão a partir do Gharb". Paper presented in Colóquio de Árabo-Islâmico, Évora, 2022.
  6. Miranda, Ana. "Mesquitas e outros espaços de transmissão do conhecimento no al-Andalus". Paper presented in VII Jornadas Internacionais de Idade Média, Castelo de Vide, 2022.
  7. Miranda, Ana. "Urban hierarchies and the role of the ulemah in late Islamic Gharb al-Andalus". Paper presented in International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2022.
  8. Miranda, Ana. "My district has an empty throne: ulama of Gharb al-Andalus between the taifa and the Almoravid period". Paper presented in X International Medieval Meeting (online), Lleida, 2022.
  9. Miranda, Ana. "Ulama of Gharb al-Andalus: Savants in a Western Periphery of the Islamic World, from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century AD". Paper presented in International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9-14, 2022 (online), Kalamazoo, 2022.
  10. Miranda, Ana. "Jamilah bint 'Abd al-Jabbar: a female warrior in the ninth century Gharb al-Andalus?". Paper presented in Women and War: Power, Gender and Representation, Lisbon, 2019.
    Published
  11. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "Love thy enemy? Conflict and cooperation between the petty kingdoms of Badajoz and Seville in the 11th century al-Andalus". Paper presented in Historians of Medieval Iberia: Enemies and Friends, Estocolmo, 2016.
    Published
  12. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "O conceito de “viagem” numa periferia do mundo muçulmano: a circulação de letrados no al-Andalus do século XI, entre o traço identitário e a prática soteriológica". Paper presented in Workshop Identidades e Discursos Soteriológicos, Lisboa, 2016.
    Published
  13. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "De esparteiro a califa: o “falso” Hisham II e a estratégia de legitimação política dos Abádidas de Sevilha no al-Andalus do século XI". Paper presented in Debuerit habere regnum. Depor e proclamar reis na Idade Média, Lisboa, 2016.
    Published
  14. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "The Kings’ Gardeners: filaha experts in the 11th century al-Andalus". Paper presented in International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2016.
    Published
  15. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "Door to the Mediterranean: port activity in late Islamic Lisbon". Paper presented in 12th International Meetings of the Middle Ages in Nájera: Port Societies of Atlantic Europe in the Middle Ages, Nájera, 2015.
    Published
  16. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "Os califas que vieram de Ceuta: cultura e legitimação política dos Banu Hammud no al-Andalus do século XI". Paper presented in De ambos os lados do Estreito: A propósito de Ceuta (sécs. VIII-XV), Lisboa, 2015.
    Published
  17. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "Like father, like son: how learned men educated their children in eleventh century al-Andalus". Paper presented in Parenthood and Childhood in the Middle Ages, Edimburgo, 2015.
    Published
  18. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "The 11th century scholars in a periphery of the Muslim world: travel and conflict between Gharb, al-Andalus, Maghreb and the East". Paper presented in Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World Conference, Bangor, 2015.
    Published
  19. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "Culture and Political Legitimacy in the 11th Century al-Andalus: the Aftasid Dynasty". Paper presented in Kings & Queens 4: Dynastic Changes & Legitimacy, Lisboa, 2015.
    Published
  20. Miranda, Ana. "Redes de circulação numa periferia do mundo islâmico: o Gharb al-Andalus do século XI entre o Mediterrâneo e o Atlântico". 2013.
  21. Miranda, Ana. "Redes de circulação numa periferia do mundo islâmico: o Gharb al-Andalus do século XI entre o Mediterrâneo e o Atlântico (apresentação do projecto de tese)". Paper presented in IV Seminário Memórias, Discursos e Práticas Sociais, 2013.
  22. Miranda, Ana. "Circulação em período muçulmano". Paper presented in III Workshop Portugal Medieval, do Território à Cartografia, Sistemas de Circulação no Portugal Medieval, 2013.
  23. Miranda, Ana. "Conflitos sociais no Gharb al-Andalus nos séculos VIII e IX (comunicação)". Paper presented in Workshop de Estudos Medievais WEM 2011, Porto, 2011.
Conference poster
  1. Miranda, Ana. "Redes de circulação numa periferia do mundo islâmico: o Gharb al-Andalus do séc. 5/XI entre o Mediterrâneo e o Atlântico". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2918, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Miranda, Ana; Pombo Cardoso, Isabel. Corresponding author: Pombo Cardoso, Isabel. "Beyond Art Technical Sources: Understanding colour production in Andalusi texts (accepted for publication)". Conservar Património (2025):
  2. Miranda, Ana Luísa Sérvulo. "Conflitos sociais no Gharb al-Andalus nos séculos VIII e IX". Incipit 2 - Workshop de Estudos Medievais da Universidade do Porto 2 (2014): 51-60. https://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/12049.pdf.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Miranda, Ana. "Gharb al-Andalus: ¿un «salvaje oeste» del mundo islámico?", al-Andalus y la Historia. Revista de divulgación histórica, 2022, https://www.alandalusylahistoria.com/?p=3884.
  2. Miranda, Ana. "A nova vida do Ocidente", Revista Visão História, 2014, https://visao.sapo.pt/edicao-impressa/2014-12-29-o-mundo-das-cruzadasf805592/ (em co-autoria com Miguel Boronha).
Online resource
  1. Miranda, Ana. A presença Islâmica em Portugal (sécs. VIII-XV) - Falando de História Podcast. 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ae4q3lHz1k.
  2. Miranda, Ana. al-AndalusPT. 2022. https://www.instagram.com/alandaluspt/.
  3. Miranda, Ana. Lisboa e os sábios do al-Andalus. 2021. http://geo.cm-lisboa.pt/index.php?id=3488&tx_ttnews[pointer]=33&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=8432&tx_ttnews[backPid]=3486&cHash=ddf1121231.
  4. Miranda, Ana. Al-Dalfa. 2019. https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/136410/al-dalfa.

Artistic / Performance

Script
  1. Miranda, Ana. Arqueologia da Cor short film (post-production, to be broadcasted by March 2025). 2024.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/04/17 - 2024/04/19 Member of the organising committee of the International Symposium Archaeology of Colour. The production of polychromy in sculpture up to the 16th century. (2024/04/17 - 2024/04/19)
2016/10/20 - 2016/10/21 Workshop Identidades e Discursos Soteriológicos (moderator and commentator in 2 panels on Salvation in Ancient Greece and Salvation in Europe and Africa in the early modern period.; and secretary (abstract book, e-mails, and coffee-breaks). (2016/10/20 - 2016/10/21) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/04 - Current Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (SMM)
2022/04 - Current Middle East Medievalists (MEM)
2021 - Current Islamicate Digital Humanities Network
2016 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Medievais
2015 - Current Grupo Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies
2015 - Current Grupo Culturas do Religioso, sub-grupo do CEIS

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024/04/17 - 2024/04/19 Member of the scientific committee of the International Symposium Archaeology of Colour. The production of polychromy in sculpture up to the 16th century.

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/01/12 - Current “Ulemas do Garb al-Andalus no séc. 5/XI. Análise a partir da Prosopografía de los Ulemas de al-Andalus (EEA-CSIC)” (Seminar in Métodos e Fontes, of the MA História do Mediterrâneo Islâmico e Medieval (FLUL, UE e UAlg) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2015/04 - 2024/03/07 “O al-Andalus no tempo das taifas”, “A queda do califado omíada do al-Andalus e os reinos de taifas”, and “Ulemas do Gharb al-Andalus” (several lessons under the scope of the syllabus História do al-Andalus, of the BA in History) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/06 - 2021/05 “Ulemas do Gharb al-Andalus” (seminar O al-Andalus e a Hispânia cristã, of the MA História do Mediterrâneo Islâmico e Medieval (FLUL, UE e UAlg) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016/10 - 2016/11 “Al-Andalus”, and “Política e cultura durante o califado abássida” (two classes delivered at the História do Islão Medieval syllabus, of the BA in History) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2016/07 - 2016/07 “Portugal and al-Andalus: an historical overview” (ICS Summer School: The Middle East and North Africa today: crises, mobilities and paths to the future) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2019 Science and Technology Management Fellowship (BGCT_Lic_Sec_I&D_HIS_04311_CHUL_2018)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2012 PhD Fellowship (SFRH/BD/88228/2012)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2007 Medal of Merit (for high academic achievement)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal