Felipe Maíllo Salgado (Born in Monforte de la Sierra, Salamanca in 1944). Philologist, historian and Spanish Novelist. Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Salamanca University, accredited as Professor by the Spanish University Council in 2008. Awarded the "María de Maeztu" prize to research excellence by Salamanca University, in 2010.
Biography
He lived in several countries since his early teens: France, USA, Central America and Singapore. After working as a merchant seaman for many years he returned to Spain around the time of the Spanish transition to democracy. Graduated in Spanish Philology and Geography & History by Salamanca University (1978) and in Semitic Philology by University of Granada (1979), earning a doctorate in Spanish Philology at Salamanca University by 1981. Later he studied Arabic Language and Islamic Law at Cairo University (between 1983 and 1986).
While teaching both at Salamanca University and at National University of Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, his research activities are centered in three different fields:
1- The study of Language as an essential tool for historical analysis.
2- The translation of historical sources, as well as other texts from Classical Arabic to Spanish.
3- Islamic Law.
Starting in 1990 he entered the fiction field publishing since then five novels with the publishing house Editorial Cálamo (AKA Cálamo de Sumer) in Buenos Aires.
Works
Speciality books
Un análisis del discurso histórico (Lección teórico-metodológica), Salamanca: Comercial Salmantina, 1980 Historical Discourse Analysis (Theoretical Methodological Lesson).
Los arabismos del castellano en la Baja Edad Media (Consideraciones históricas y filológicas), 3ª ed., Salamanca: Universidad, 1998, [Universidad- Instituto Árabe de Cultura, 1983; Universidad, 1991.] Arabic Expressions in Castillian Spanish during the Late Middle Ages (Historical and Philological Considerations).
Vocabulario básico de historia del Islam (Madrid: Ediciones Akal, 1987). Basic Vocabulary of Islamic History.
Zamora y los zamoranos en las fuentes árabes medievales (Salamanca: Universidad, 1990) [Anejos 2. St. Zamorensia] Zamora and its People in Medieval Arabic Sources.
Salamanca y los salmantinos en las fuentes árabes (Consideraciones críticas relativas a la dominación árabe, al poblamiento y a la frontera) (Salamanca: Centro de Estudios Salmantinos, 1994). Salamanca and its People in Arabic Sources (Critical Considerations concerning the Arab Domination, Population and the Frontier).
Vocabulario de Historia Árabe e Islámica (Madrid: Ediciones Akal, 1996 y 1999). Vocabulary of Arabic and Islamic History.
¿Por qué desapareció al-Andalus? (Buenos Aires: Cálamo de Sumer, 1997 y 1998). Why did Al-Andalus Disappear?.
De la desaparición de al-Andalus (Madrid: Abada Editores, 2004, 2nd edition, 2010) The Extinction of Al-Andalus.
Diccionario de Derecho Islámico (Gijón: Ediciones Trea, 2005) Dictionary of Islamic Law.
De Historiografía Árabe (Madrid: Abada Editores, 2008) About Arab Historiography.
Acerca de la conquista árabe de Hispania. Imprecisiones, equívocos y patrañas (Gijón, Ediciones Trea, 2011; 2nd ed., Madrid, Abada Editores, 2016; 3rd ed., Madrid, Abada Editores, 2018) On the Arab conquest of Hispania. Imprecisions, mistakes and nonsense.
Diccionario de Historia Árabe e Islámica (Madrid: Abada Editores, 2013) Dictionary of Arabic and Islamic History.
Las mujeres del Profeta (Madrid: Abada Editores, 2018) The Wives of the Prophet.
Translation works
Historia de al-Andalus de Ibn al-Kardabus. Estudio, traducción y notas (Madrid: Ediciones Akal, 1986, 2nd ed. rev. 1993, 3rd ed. 2008).
A través del Oriente (Rihla de [Ibn Yubayr]). Estudio, traducción, notas e índices (Barcelona: Ediciones del Serbal, 1988; 2nd ed. en II vols., Biblioteca El Mundo, MDS BOOKS/ MEDIASAT, Generalitat Valenciana, 2004; 3rd ed. rev. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2007). Through the Orient (Ibn Jubayr’s Rihla). Study, Translation, Notes and Indexes.
Crónica anónima de los reyes de taifas. Estudio, traducción y notas (Madrid: Ediciones Akal, 1991, reprint. 2010). Anonymous Chronicle of the Petty Kings. Study, Translation and Notes.
La caída del califato de Córdoba y los reyes de taifas (al-Bayan al-Mugrib II de Ibn ‘Idari). Estudio, traducción, notas e índices (Salamanca: Universidad, 1993). The Fall of the Cordoba Caliphate and the Petty Kings (Al-Bayan al-Mugrib II by Ibn Idhari). Study, Translation, Notes and Indexes.
