Camilo Gomez-Rivas
is a historian of the medieval Mediterranean. He wrote a doctoral thesis on Islamic law and society in the Maghreb at Yale University. As Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at AUC his research focuses on the social history of Islamic Spain and the Maghreb in the medieval and early modern periods. He often translates literature.
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