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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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Cultural colors of Morocco
The exhibition The cultural colors of Morocco, taking place in Rabat, is part of a [...]
Mar
Peace and beauty in Massoudy’s calligraphy
Hassan Massoudy is an artist for whom the word itself remains the most sublime creative force. [...]
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
Islam’s view of Nature
Islam contains an elaborate hierarchy of knowledge integrated by the principle of Divine Unity (tawhid). [...]
Sep
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
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
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
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
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
The green mosque
The Building: Problem or Solution competition, managed by Faith in Place, encouraged the creative design [...]
Mar
The Middle East feminist revolution
Among the most prevalent Western stereotypes about Muslim countries are those concerning Muslim women: doe-eyed, [...]
Mar
This is not an Islamic revolution
The uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia show that Islam is now less potent politically, even [...]
Feb
Imam Ghazali and the importance of character
Imam Ghazali may have lived over 900 years ago, but in the true spirit of [...]
Feb
Caribbean Muslims
The terms Caribbean and South American refer to aggregations of countries, not to specific areas [...]
Dec
The Sinjska Alka, intangible heritage
The term ‘cultural heritage’ has changed content considerably in recent decades, partially owing to the [...]
Dec
‘Hajj’ in the Past
John Lewis Burckhardt, 1814 Swiss-born orientalist, John Lewis Burckhardt travelled widely across Africa and the [...]
Nov