Author Archives: FUNCI
Articles Communications
FUNCI signs an agreement for the enhancement of Rabat’s heritage
We are pleased to announce that the Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), represented by its president, [...]
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News
MEMOLab and FUNCI in a research project on the hydraulics of the Tagus River
Archaeologists from the University of Granada and the Centre for the Study of Islamic Toledo [...]
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Articles
Mahmud Ali Makki: poet of dialogue between cultures
With this article, written by Mohamed Gomaa Tawfik, we remember Dr. Mahmud Ali Makki, a [...]
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Notes of history
Qabbani and al-Bayati: two Arab poets in Madrid
Rosa Isabel Martínez Lillo (Autonomous University of Madrid) Two poets and the same city. Two [...]
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Articles Publications
Publication of ‘La madina olvidada’.
Since the creation in 2017 of the Centre for Studies on Islamic Madrid (CEMI), a [...]
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Conclusions of the Congress on Islamic past of Toledo
On 30 November 2022, the Centre for Studies on Islamic Toledo (CETI), which belongs to [...]
Dec
Exhibitions in Italy and Spain as a reflection of a crisis
This article analyses a sample of temporary exhibitions that explore the effects of a geopolitical [...]
Dec
Women mystics of Islam, freedom and lordship
We reproduce the paper presented by Inés Eléxpuru, FUNCI’s Director of Communication, at the 6th [...]
Sep
Decalogue of good practices for the dissemination of Islamic heritage
Last May 2022, the Islamic Culture Foundation organized the workshop “Islamic Heritage: good practices for [...]
Sep
Amazigh women, guardians of language and culture
The complex landscape of language politics of Tamazight and Literary Arabic, influenced by French colonialism, [...]
Jun
Music as an intercultural expression in Berlin
It’s a damp, cold October night in Berlin, but along Hauptstraße in the Friedenau district, [...]
Jun
Mayrit: from the University to an Erasmus project
During the month of May, the Center for the Study on Islamic Madrid (CEMI) has [...]
May
FUNCI receives the Doha international award
Last May 23rd and 24th, the Islamic Culture Foundation participated in the 14th Doha Conference [...]
May
Marseille, a proud and mixed-race city
At a time when the world is closing in on the “other”, and identities are [...]
May
The Center for the Study on Islamic Toledo signs an agreement with UCLM
The Islamic Culture Foundation has created the Center for the Study on Islamic Toledo (CETI). [...]
May
Ramadan and fasting in monotheist religions
Dr. Mohamed Chtatou Ramadan, a sacred month for Muslims, commemorates the revelation of the Qur’an [...]
Apr
The rise of hydraulic clocks in Morocco
From the water clock erected at the Koutoubia gate by the Almohads to the numerous [...]
Mar
Muslims in the Viceroyalty of Peru
To speak on the subject of the Arabs in the viceroyalty, it would be necessary [...]
Feb
The Almaden mines, an Andalusi heritage
During the Al-Andalus period, mining activity was very important and the extracted materials were exported [...]
Feb
Sea of Tears, an exhibition to the migrants lost in the sea
We reproduce the article “Sea of Tears, Garden of Memory”published on the AramcoWorld’s latest issue. [...]
Jan
The mantle of Roger II: the legacy of a multicultural society
The 12th century is often described as a period marked by the Crusades, called by [...]
Dec
A European capital’s forgotten memory: Madrid’s Islamic past
Unexpectedly wedged between vehicles in an underground car park lie the remnants of Madrid’s forgotten [...]
Dec
Ibn Jubayr: An Andalusian Traveller for Penance
Between the eleventh and the fifteenth century, three great groups of civilizations were in contact [...]
Dec
FUNCI expands its bibliographic base with the Benumeya Database
The Islamic Culture Foundation has just published the Benumeya Database of Bibliography on North Africa [...]
Nov