Mikel de Epalza Ferrer (1938 – 6 December 2008) was a Spanish academic who was a specialist in Arab and Islamic studies.
Born in Pau, France in 1938, he was a specialist on Mudéjars (Muslims permitted to remain in the Christian realms of the medieval Iberian peninsula) and Moriscos (converts from Islam to Christianity in the same era).
He encouraged good relations between Mediterranean European and North African nations.
In 2001, he completed a Catalan language translation of the Quran which he titled L'Alcorà.
[2] He was married to María Jesús Rubiera Mata, a colleague in his university department.