Maria Dolors Bramon Planes (born 31 December 1943) is a Spanish philologist, historian, and university professor specializing in the Muslim world.[1]
Biography
Dolors Bramon married
Ernest Lluch in 1966, with whom she had three daughters – Eulàlia, Rosa, and Mireia[2] – and whom she accompanied to Valencia in 1970 when he joined its
University. They lived there for a decade, until 1977.[3]
From 1968 to 1983 she was an editor of the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.[4] In December 1977 she graduated from the
University of Barcelona, where from 1979 to 1984 she was an assistant professor and received a doctorate in Semitic Philology.
In 1984 she became an interim assistant professor at the
University of Zaragoza, and secured a titled position in 1986. A year later, in December 1987, she returned to the University of Barcelona as a full professor of Arab and Islamic Studies. In 1998 she received her doctorate in Medieval History.[5]
A specialist in the Islamic period in the
Crown of Aragon, and especially in
Catalonia, Bramon's work has focused on the presence of religious minorities (Mudejars, Jews) in these territories, Islamic theology, women in Islam, as well as philological studies on the influence and presence of Arabisms in the languages of the Iberian Peninsula.
In 1990 she was appointed director of the Historical Archive of Banyoles, a position which she held until February 2008. She was also advisor of the Lexographic and Onomastic Offices of the
Institut d'Estudis Catalans beginning in 2000, and collaborator at the Philological Section of the Institute beginning in 2002.
Since 2014 she has been president of the World University Service of the Mediterranean (WUSMED).[9]
Awards
1976
Joan Fuster Essay Award [
ca] for Una lengua, dos lenguas, tres lenguas, as a member of a group of six people who presented a set of works[3]
1981 Joan Fuster Essay Award for Contra moros i jueus (Contra moros y judíos)[3]
Works
Raons d'identitat del País Valencià. Pèls i senyals (1976)
Egipto (1979), Editorial Castell, Barcelona
ISBN8474890217
Contra moros i jueus: Formació i estratègia d'unes discriminacions al País Valencià (1981),
ISBN8475020526
Spanish translation: Contra moros y judíos (1986), Ed. Península, Barcelona,
ISBN8429723838
El mundo en el siglo XII. Estudio de la versión castellana de una geografía universal: El Tratado de al-Zuhrî (1991), Ed. Ausa, Sabadell,
ISBN8486329752
Nous Textos d'historiadors musulmans referents a la Catalunya Medieval (continuació de l'obra de
Josep Maria Millàs i Vallicrosa [
ca]), doctoral thesis, published under the same title by the University of Barcelona in 1999,
ISBN8447521621
De quan érem o no musulmans. Textos del 713 al 1010 (2000),
ISBN8476024509
Una introducción al islam: religión, historia y cultura (2002),
ISBN8484323587
Mots remots. Setze estudis d'història i de toponímia catalana (2002), CCG edicions, Gerona, with
Rosa Lluch Bramon
Ser dona i musulmana (2007), Ed. Cruïlla and Fundación Joan Maragall, Barcelona,
ISBN8495483246
Spanish translation: Ser mujer y musulmana (2009), Ed. Bellaterra, Barcelona
En torno al islam y las musulmanas (2010), Ed. Bellaterra, Barcelona
Moros, jueus i cristians en terra catalana. Memòria del nostre passat (2013), Pagès editor, Lérida,
ISBN9788499753140
Spanish translation: Moros, judíos y cristianos en tierra catalana. Memoria de nuestro pasado (2013), Ed. Milenio, Lérida
L'islam avui. Alguns aspectes controvertits (2016), Fragmenta Editorial, Barcelona,
ISBN9788415518440
References
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abFerrer i Mallol, M. Teresa (19 December 2011).
"Nous membres" [Our members] (PDF). El Ple del Dia (in Catalan).
Institut d'Estudis Catalans: 47–49. Retrieved 21 August 2018.