Curriculum Vitae

Welcome to my webpage. Here you can find information about my project and about myself.     
Born in Barcelona, I studied Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and in 2009 I obtained my BA Degree ( cum laude ).  
In 2010 I completed my MA Arabic Language and Culture (cum laude) with a thesis on al-Shayzarī's twelve-century treatise on love entitled  Rawḍat al-qulūb wa-nuzhat al-muḥibb wa-l-maḥbūb [The green garden of the hearts and the pleasure of the lover and the beloved] under the supervision of Dr. A.Schippers.     
I also studied Classical Guitar at the Conservatory Liceu in Barcelona and from 2002 at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where I received my BA Degree in 2006.            
In 2008 I spent several months at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) and in 2010 I collaborated as editorial intern at the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam. From 2003 until 2012 I have been guitar teacher at Music School Fluxus and from 2011until 2012 I taught Spanish at the University for Applied Sciences (TIO).
I am interested in the relationships between Muslims , Jews  and Christians in   the Iberian Peninsula , the attitudes   towards religious minorities  during  the Middle Ages and specially towards the mudejars , their  manuscripts written   in Arabic and in aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic characters) and within the arts, I'm  particularly attracted to poetry and music.

Ph.D. Research

Mudejars and the Politics of Identity: Authority, Loyalty and Religious Polemics in Late-Medieval Iberia

Currently I am Ph.D. student at the department of Religious Studies of the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Prof. Gerard Wiegers, Dr. Richard van Leeuwen (University of Amsterdam) and Prof. Mercedes-García Arenal (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Madrid). The project has been funded by the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS) and a preliminary research has been supported by a grant from the Catharine van Tussenbroekfonds. It is also part of Project Corpi (Coversion, Overlapping, Religiosities, Polemics and Interaction), which is an advanced Grant of the European Research Council. 
My research investigates the politics of identity of Muslim minority communities living under Christian rule (mudejars) in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula in the later Middle Ages. It focuses on Arabic and aljamiado  manuscripts from Aragon and Navarre and itaims to shedlightonthefunction of polemical writing as a discursive means for the construction of Mudejar identities and social realities in the period of relative tolerance that preceded the forced conversions of the sixteenth-century.  


The conversion of the moriscos .  Altarpiece. Felipe Bigarny, 1475-1542  (Image: www.ernesto51.wordpress.com)

Palacio de la Aljafería. Cortes de Aragón, second half of the 11th century  (Image: www.iberimagen.com)

M. Colominas Aparicio (2015). [Review of the book Neigboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today] Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies.

M. Colominas Aparicio, G.A. Wiegers (2016). “Los mudéjares de Castilla”. Monográfico Islam en minoría en la Edad Media in Edad Media. Revista de Historia 17 (2016).

Polemics and Politics of Religious Identity (Research Master Religious Studies 2013)

Islam in Europa (Religious Studies 2013-2014) 

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