About EEA

The School of Arabic Studies (Escuela de Estudios Árabes, EEA) is a research center that belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC), which is an autonomous public research institution subordinate to the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Its original headquarter is located at the Casa del Chapiz (House of the Chapiz), a former Morisco building qualified as Monument of Cultural Interest, whose origins date back to the 14th century.
The building is situated in the Albaicin -a quarter of Granada that is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List-, specifically on the corner to the way to Sacromonte.

Nowadays, the EEA has two headquarters: the above-mentioned one in Casa del Chapiz, and a second one in Carmen de los Mínimos, a recently constructed building that opened in 2007.

The research activity in the EEA focuses mainly on the History and Culture of al-Andalus through written documents on the one hand, and on Islamic Archaeology and Architecture on the other.

A good synthesis of the EEA history and headquarters, as well as its researchers’ work, can be seen in the institutional video.