Delfina

Serrano Ruano

Delfina Serrano is PhD Tenured Researcher at the National High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid (Spain). She is a member of the research group “Islamology: past and present of the shari`a through its textual tradition”. She focuses on Islamic law and the intellectual history of the pre-modern Islamic west, including the relationship between fiqh and other Islamic religious sciences like kalam and Sufism, but also the relevance of theory and practice of classical Islamic jurisprudence to contemporary Muslim societies. Results of her work have been published in both Spanish and international periodicals and collective volumes like Al-Qantara, Islamic Law and Society, Der Islam, Hawwa, etc... She is the author of a Spanish translation and study of Madhahib al-hukkam fi nawazil al-ahkam, a collection of legal cases compiled by the 12th century Maliki jurist Muhammad b. `Iyad and dealing with the activity as a qadi and as a mufti of his father, qadi `Iyad, the author of prophet’s Muhammad biography known as the Shifa’. She has also edited a collective volume on “Cruelty and compassion in Arabic and Islamic literature”. At present she is the chief editor of the CSIC series “Estudios Árabes e Islámicos.