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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 Cerro del Bu: an Islamic siege fortress at Tulaytula
Cerro del Bu is an archaeological site located on a promontory opposite the historic centre [...]
Jul
Ibn ‘Arabi and Sufism, a way of reading Islamic architecture
Why does man choose to express himself through art and how does he do so? [...]
Jul
Eid Al-Adha and animal welfare in islam
On July 29th, we have just attended the Eid al-Adha, or the so-called Feast of [...]
Jul
Islamic finance: a Sharia-based form of economy?
After World War II, the new international economic order was set in place. World trade, [...]
Jun
Moriscos influence in Rabat and Salé in the 16th and 17th centuries
On 18 May, the Islamic Culture Foundation was invited to participate in the international conference [...]
May
Madrid, the Andalusian city with many streams
The history of Madrid began in the ninth century, when the Umayyads decided to build [...]
May
In Saudi Arabia, in the footsteps of the Prophet
Hijrah: in the footsteps of the Prophet. This was the theme chosen by Ithra (the [...]
Mar
A research recovers the ancient potters women of the Alhambra
Potters women working for the Alhambra, new chronologies or manufacturing methods are some of the [...]
Feb
The defensive watchtower of the Taifal Mayrit
Between 1995 and 1997, a defensive structure was identified in the Plaza de Oriente (Madrid), [...]
Jan
A new essay on Râbi’a Al Adawiyya
We reproduce an excerpt of an interview with the Moroccan thinker and theologian Asma Lamrabet, [...]
Jan
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
Al-Andalus for a united Mediterranean
From 21 to 23 October 2022, the Andalusian Heritage Festival of Rabat and Salé (Morocco) [...]
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