This conference will be given by Juan Fco. Murillo Redondo, as part of the First ArqueoCórdoba Days organized by the Sísifo Research Group of the University of Cordoba, through its scientific culture project “We Are All Archeology” (“Arqueología somos todos”). 

Within the framework of the activities which Casa Árabe is organizing to celebrate the 1300th anniversary of Cordoba as the capital of Al-Andalus (716-2016), a time when Cordoba became the capital of the emirate of Al-Andalus and one of the most significant political, economic and, of course, cultural centers in mankind’s history, Juan Fco. Murillo Redondo will be giving this conference on the archeology of Islamic Cordoba, from the times of the Visigothic kingdom to the proclamation of the Muslim state in Al-Andalus by Abderrahman III in 929.

Juan F. Murillo Redondo has been the director of the Archeology Office at the Department of Urbanism of the Municipal Government of Cordoba since 1993. Forming part of the Archeology Department at the University of Cordoba since 1988, he has collaborated with several doctorate and graduate programs as an educator, and as a researcher on many different projects financed by public institutions. He has contributed to introducing the stratigraphic system of excavation in Cordoba and implementing the al-Mulk registration system. A member of the PAI-HUM-236 Research Group (Archeology as a documentary basis for historical interpretation) at the University of Cordoba, he has carried out several research projects on the transition between the late ancient city and the  early medieval city, and analyses of the strategies for exploitation of the peri-urban areas around Cordoba. He is also the author of over a dozen monographic works and articles published in specialized journals from Spain and abroad.