Conor Dube is Research Fellow in North African Medieval History at UCL. A historian and philologist, his research concerns the intellectual, religious, and sociocultural history of the medieval Maghrib.
After receiving a master’s in Religious Studies from New York University (2017), he earned his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University (2025). His dissertation focused on the birth of Qurʾānic commentary as a formal scholarly discipline in the early Islamic West (comprising both North Africa and al-Andalus). Other research interests include the quotidian effects of Islam's arrival in the Western Mediterranean, the problems and possibilities of textual sources for Maghribī social and economic history, the plurality of religious idioms in medieval North Africa, and Arabic geographic writing.