Author Archives: Fundación de Cultura Islámica
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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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Islam’s view of Nature
Islam contains an elaborate hierarchy of knowledge integrated by the principle of Divine Unity (tawhid). [...]
Sep
FUNCI launchs a Mediterranean Landscape Convention
The Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI) in the framework of its program Med-O-Med Cultural Landscapes for [...]
Sep
A project of FUNCI in the South of Lebanon
Doueir Municipality in collaboration with FUNCI’s Program Med-O-Med, has been officially notified of the acceptance [...]
Sep
Ibn Khaldun and the rise and fall of Empires
Abu Zayd ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadhrami, 14th-century Arab historiographer and historian, was [...]
Aug
Women’s voices from the Muslim World
Women’s Voices Now is a young organization founded in January 2010. Their mission is to [...]
Aug
The tomb of Abu Madyan in Tlemcen
These are the pictures of the young algerian photographer Saadou Taleb, taken during his successive visits to [...]
Aug
Pictures of a Stone Town in Zanzibar
This is the remarkable work of an italian photographer, Paolo Evangelista, on the muslim community [...]
Jul
FUNCI in the cellebrations of Tlemcem 2011
This year we will paticipate in the cultural events organised in Tlemcen, Algeria, as it [...]
Jul
Art captures the rush of Egypt’s revolution
From graffiti to YouTube videos, the Shubbak festival brings the energy and unpredictability of the [...]
Jul
New Heritage Sites in Mediterranean and Middle East
UNESCO has inscribed in its World Heritage list 25 new sites. Five of these new [...]
Jul
FUNCI in a Campus of Excellence for environment
The Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), through its International Cooperation Programme Med-O-Med, Cultural Landscapes of the [...]
Jun
FUNCI signs an agreement in Marrakesh
On 9 June, FUNCI (Fundación de Cultura Islámica) signed an important agreement, as part of [...]
Jun
FUNCI at Facebook
Dear friends of the Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), we want you to know about our [...]
Jun
The Med-O-Med Station, by Manuel Ocaña
In our Programme Med-O-Med, cultural landscapes of the Mediterranean and Middle East we have created [...]
May
FUNCI, involved with the promotion of Islamic Finances
Over the last few days, a part of Spanish society has been demonstrating, raising its [...]
May
The absence of evidence for banning burqas
Are arguments in favour of the French ban supported by any actual evidence, and what [...]
Apr
Women Scholars of Hadith
History records few scholarly enterprises, at least before modern times, in which women have played [...]
Apr
The Anna Lindh Journalist Award 2011
Deadline: 15 July 2011 The 2011 Edition of the Anna Lindh Journalist Award, created by [...]
Apr
Historic origins of poisoning against Islam
The traumatic experience of the Crusades gave Europe its cultural awareness and its unity; but [...]
Apr
L’art islamique à Rabat
La Villa des Arts de Rabat organise une rencontre sur l’art en pays musulmans. L’art islamique né en orient, a [...]
Apr