Al-Andalus Chair. Sepharad: the Jewish heritage of Al-Andalus'.

The researcher Fátima Ballesteros will be in charge of this conference of the Cátedra Al-Andalus with this conference about Sepharad: the Jewish heritage of Al-Andalus.

The Muslim conquest ushered in a period of flourishing for the Jewish communities on the Iberian Peninsula, which resulted in a greater implantation and population growth, a rise in the economic level of the Jewish quarters and a notable social and cultural presence of the philosophical, scientific and literary thought of the Hispanic Jews.

In Al-Andalus, the concept of Sepharad takes shape; the creation of the myth that responds to the Jewish religious tradition, with roots in the Old Testament and in the importance of the biblical diaspora.