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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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Al-Idrisi, the Book of Roger, and the importance of water
Abu Addullah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Addallah ibn Idrisi (1099-1166) was the creator of one [...]
Jul
The contribution of the Arab-Islamic civilization yesterday and today
Last May 9th, the Islamic Culture Foundation participated in the conference “Europe plural and mixed”, [...]
May
The hidden Islamic history of Madrid revealed
We portray underneath a brief story on the Islamic origins of Madrid published by reporter [...]
May
The forgotten history of al-Mayriti
This article, by the Spanish Newspaper El Confidencial, offers a first approach to Maslama al-Mayriti, [...]
Apr
An epistemological reparation of the Andalusi agronomy
The “Modernity/Colonial” movement is a line of thought appeared in South America at the beginning [...]
Apr
The heritage of Notre Dame – less European than people think
On Monday, as Notre Dame burned before our eyes, it was striking to note how few [...]
Apr
Culture beyond borders: the amazigh past of the Canary Islands
The theory of the amazigh origin of the Canary Islands’ population is increasingly confirmed, thanks [...]
Apr
Not of the Letter but of the Spirit
Review by the philologist and Historian María Jesús Viguera Molíns (University Complutense of Madrid) for [...]
Feb
The Influence of the Islamic Civilization in Europe
The Spanish institution Casa Árabe launched, last January 14th, an interesting series of conferences under [...]
Jan
Ten million euros to unearth the history of Islam in Europe
The Spanish researcher Mercedes García Arenal, specialized in the history of the Moorish, leads this [...]
Dec
Europe’s biggest medieval arsenal discovered
In FUNCI, we want to congratulate our friend and collaborator, the archaeologist Manuel Retuerce, member [...]
Dec
Medina Azahara grows to the east of the Caliphal Palace
A Spanish-Germany archaeological team has found, in a new excavated area, a big administrative building [...]
Oct
The miracle of numbers in the Quran
Even though the miracle of numbers present in the Quran is already known among many [...]
Sep
Not of the letter but of the Spirit
This book gathers different manuscripts, some of them already published and others completely new, from [...]
Jul
Publishing of “Islamic Madrid. A recovered history”
Last June 11th, the Islamic Culture Foundation participated in the Nights of Ramadan, organized by [...]
Jun
Muhammad I, fundador de Madrid
Quinto emir omeya de al-Andalus, Muhammad I fue hijo del emir ‘Abd al-Rahmān II y [...]
Jun
Islamic tapestry with figurative scenes
In Islam, figurative designs are, at the least, unadvisable. Some of them, as is the [...]
May
Passages from the Bible discovered behind Qur’an manuscript
An “extraordinary” discovery by an eagle-eyed scholar has identified the shadowy outlines of passages from [...]
May
Yazid Kheloufi, spiritual calligraphy
Yazid Kheloufi’s works show an approach to writing as a means of creation, through calligraphy [...]
Apr
The notion of knowledge in Islam
This is what the Quran and hadith say about knowledge or science (‘ilm). This term, [...]
Mar