Inês Lourinho

e-mail | ines.lourinho@deco.proteste.pt

Inês Lourinho is a researcher at Centre for History of the University of Lisbon. The interconnections between Christians and Muslims, the political contexts, and the dynamics of the frontier warfare that enabled the foundation of the Kingdom of Portugal are among her main fields of investigation, with a special focus on the Almoravid dynasty and the early decades of the Almohad Caliphate. She is presently undertaking a post-doctorate project with the title “A look over the Sahel from the perspective of Medieval History: foundation of political units in the Sub-Saharan region of the ancient Almoravid Empire”. Among her publications: Fronteira do Gharb al-Andalus: terreno de confronto entre almorávidas e cristãos (1093 – 1147) (Lisboa: Universidade de Lisboa, 2020); “Queen Zaynab al-Nafzawiyya and the Building of a Mediterranean Empire in the Eleventh Century Maghreb”, in A Companion to Global Queenship, ed. Elena Woodacre (Leeds and Amsterdam: ARC Humanities Press and Amsterdam University Press, 2018); “Portugal a caminho de Sevilha. O fossado de Triana (1178)”, in Fechos de Armas. 15 Hitos Bélicos del Medievo Ibérico (Siglos XI-XVI) (Madrid: La Ergástula, 2021); “Military Jihād against Muslims: ‘Abd Allāh b. Yāsīn and the Foundation of a Saharan Political Unit that Would Conquer the Maghreb and al-Andalus (Eleventh Century)”, Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2022); “O rei Esmar e a ‘Batalha’ de Ourique: uma identificação a partir das fontes muçulmanas”, in Os meus Olhos Viram todas essas Coisas: Estudos em Homenagem a José Augusto Ramos, 2 vols., org. Amílcar Guerra, Hermenegildo Fernandes, Nuno Simões Rodrigues and Martim Aires Horta (Lisboa: Universidade de Lisboa, 2024); “Between the sands of the Sahara and the waves of the Mediterranean: the fleet as a model of political and economic expansion of the Almoravid Empire (1115-1147)”, in Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. Jeanette M. Fregulia (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2025).