Maria Grego

María Crego is a professor of Arabic language and culture and Arabic-Spanish translation at the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) in Seville. She received her PhD in Arabic Philology from the University of Granada and is a Specialist in Arabic-Spanish Translation from the Toledo School of Translators. She completed her doctoral thesis at the School of Arabic Studies (CSIC) in Granada.
Her main fields of study are the History and Historiography of al-Andalus and the transmission of knowledge between the Arab-Islamic and Christian worlds. She works specifically on the influence of oriental texts on Spanish historiography and literature, as well as on the medieval genre of Arabic biographical dictionaries, both Andalusian and Maghrebi. She is the author of the monograph Toledo en época Omeya (ss. VIII-IX).