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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The etymological meaning of ‘bedouin’
The word Bedouin (bedw) is referred to the habitants of Badia (al-badia), a place [...]
Feb
Our project in Lebanon, one year after
Just over a year ago, the Islamic Culture Foundation, along with the Municipality of Doueir [...]
Feb
The Feast of the Candles in Salé
Much of the Islamic world has just finished celebrating the ‘Mawlid’, the birth of the [...]
Jan
Mawlid Mubarak
At FUNCI we wish you a blessed Mawlid al-Nabi, or birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, that [...]
Jan
The only living sahabi tree
The last good fellow (sahabi) alive, this is how they call this tree located in [...]
Nov
The water in al-Andalus, in Andalusia and Toledo
In the last few weeks, we have been carrying out the tour of presentations and [...]
Oct
Declaration of the ALF on ‘Innocence of the Muslims’
FUNCI, as a member of Anna Lindh Foundation, alignes itself with the Declaration of the [...]
Sep
Rabat, World heritage by UNESCO
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in St. Petersburg (Russia), unanimously decided, on Friday, to inscribe [...]
Jul
FUNCI participates in actions for dialogue
In the course of the last month representatives of FUNCI attended two important meetings: first, [...]
Jun
Festival de Fès de la Culture Soufie 6ème Édition
Festival de Fès de la Culture Soufie 6ème Édition, sous le thème Sapiences soufies (hikam), [...]
Apr
Cultural colors of Morocco
The exhibition The cultural colors of Morocco, taking place in Rabat, is part of a [...]
Mar
Moroccan young environmentalists at FUNCI Rabat
In February the 19th, the program Med-O-Med FUNCI was presented, in Rabat antenna, to a [...]
Feb
Gardens of Al-Andalus in Dos Hermanas
The exhibition of FUNCI Gardens of al-Andalus travels now to Dos Hermanas, in collaboration with the [...]
Jan
The archeological prospecting in the Agdal, begins
A team of experts of the Laboratory of Architecture and Archaeology of the City (LAAC. [...]
Jan
The orchard garden in Al-Andalus
In al-Ándalus, gardens had more than just an aesthetic role. The orchard gardens grew aromatic [...]
Jan
Technical visit to Southern Lebanon and Palestine
Last week, Francisco Martín, projects technician at the Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), travelled to Lebanon [...]
Dec
Peace and beauty in Massoudy’s calligraphy
Hassan Massoudy is an artist for whom the word itself remains the most sublime creative force. [...]
Oct
Flamenco is also oriental
¿Who said that flamenco was only something from Spain? Aside from the theories about the [...]
Oct
A European guide for the well-being of pluralist societies
Migrants and their descendants, a Guide to policies for the well-being of all in pluralist [...]
Sep
Poetic comparisons
“According to al-Saqundí, the Al-Andalús poets excelled in comparative imagination. Flowers sometimes serve to paint [...]
Sep