The Banū Waqār Project explores the intellectual legacy of the Banū Waqār family, pivotal to the last two centuries of Jewish life in the Iberian Peninsula before the Expulsion. The project focuses on editing, translating, and studying a variety of texts written in Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and Castilian by several members of the Banū Waqār family. Among these is The Conciliatory Treatise between Philosophy and Tradition (Al-Maqālah al-Jāmiʿah bayn al-Falsafah wa al-Sharīʿah) by Joseph ibn Waqār, preserved in its only extant manuscript. The initiative aims not only to make this seminal work accessible but also to delve into its roots in Jewish and Islamic thought and examine its influence across Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.

Commencing in April 2025, this project begins as part of the "Kabbalah, Philosophy, and Power in the 14th and 15th Centuries Iberian Peninsula," a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement ID: 101147087, DOI 10.3030/101147087) and hosted at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East at the Centre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid.