As Cicero told his correspondent Luceius: I am forced to do what many have criticized, to speak about myself…

Without further prosopopoeia, and with the reader now warned of the risks inherent in what the Greeks called periautology or self-praise, I will say that my lineage comes from the La Mancha Campo de Calatrava, a place name with a strong Arabic sound, and, by chance or [quixotic] causality, reading modern books of chivalry led me to serve in the 1st Parachute Flag and the 4th Special Operations Group of the Spanish Army. Anyone who hasn't been an infantryman may not know what it's like to feel like the master of the world, on foot and penniless, as Cela said. Still imbued with the curious discourse on Arms and Letters of the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, I graduated in Semitic and Islamic Studies (major in Arabic) with an Extraordinary End-of-Course Award. Today, I'm a research fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid (FPU) and am currently working on a doctoral thesis on ancient Arabic translations of the biblical Book of 2 Kings. In addition, my scientific interest focuses on everything related to the intellectual history of the Islamic world, especially al-Andalus.

May Allah be with you! And my success depends only on Allah!