Luisa Arvide Cambra (born inAlmeria,Spain, August 10, 1956) is a Doctor in Arabic Studies with an Extraordinary Degree Award and Special Award Doctorate. She has taught at theUniversity of Granada andUniversity of Almeria, and from September 2011 is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Almeria.^[1] She has been guest professor at many scientific institutions, includingUniversity of Heidelberg,University of Leiden andUniversity of Cambridge, inEurope, as well asGeorgetown University,Harvard University,Yale University and theUniversity of California, Berkeley in theUnited States, and she has done stays of study inArab countries, such asSyria,Jordan,Egypt andTunis. She has been director of research projects on medieval Arabic science, and Arab philosophy and literature and lectured on the Arab and Islamic world in Spain and abroad. She has also coordinated research contracts of theEuropean Union within theErasmus andSocrates programs. She specializes mainly in medieval Arabic medicine,^[2] and has written eight books^[3] and over fifty articles[2], among them studies of the famous Andalusian surgeonAbulcasis,^[4][5][6][7] in the field of Islamic science, as well asAl-Hariri of Basra´sMaqamat,^[8] in the field of literature, andIbn Sabin´sSicilian Questions,^[9] in the area of philosophy.

She is a member of several international scientific associations; Director of the research groupHUM 113-Philological Studies fromJunta de Andalucia; and Deputy Director General for Europe of the IBC.

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