In this seminar, Isabel Toral will give a talk about the transmission and reception of the famous encyclopaedic anthology al-Iqd al-Farid of the Cordovan Ibn Abd Rabbih (d.940) and will reconstruct how this Andalusian work became a universal classic of Arabic letters. Delfina Serrano will focus on the function of Maliki law doctrine in the legal system of the United Arab Emirates. Both processes evidence the long-durée and discontinuous reception history of Arabo-Islamic “Classic” texts, doctrines and corpora until modernity