Al-Muṣāra: the Marinid royal citadel in Fez

The study of almunias in the Maghreb and al-Andalus intensified more than 10 years ago [...]

RAMADAN KAREEM

We wish you a month of Ramadan filled with peace, serenity and health, in which [...]

CEMI at FITUR 2025

On 22 January, the Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI) participated in the Madrid stand at the [...]

CEMI at the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid

On 23 January, the Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI) organised the event ‘Revisiting Maŷriṭ: heritage, history [...]

The Farming Communities of the Dryland Areas in al-Andalus

Recently, the book Las comunidades campesinas del secano en al-Ándalus (‘The Farming Communities of the [...]

The Silk Road. A Living History

The Silk Road The Silk Road was a vast historical network of trade routes that [...]

We wish you a New Year of Peace, Justice and Love.

New collaborations for FUNCI in Castilla-La-Mancha

Last October, we had the pleasure of sealing a collaboration agreement with the Botanical Garden [...]

Abu Dhabi, five unique objects

We naturally view the world through our own cultural lens: The Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu [...]

Islamic neo-medievalism in Madrid’s Tetuán neighbourhood

Last October we held several activities aimed at revaluing and disseminating the heritage of the [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Mahmud Ali Makki: poet of dialogue between cultures

With this article, written by Mohamed Gomaa Tawfik, we remember Dr. Mahmud Ali Makki, a [...]

Qabbani and al-Bayati: two Arab poets in Madrid

Rosa Isabel Martínez Lillo (Autonomous University of Madrid) Two poets and the same city. Two [...]

Publication of ‘La madina olvidada’.

Since the creation in 2017 of the Centre for Studies on Islamic Madrid (CEMI), a [...]

The ‘Neo-Mudejar’ of Chamberí, al-Andalus from the contemporaneity

On the occasion of the celebration of the Fiestas de Nuestra Señora del Carmen de [...]

New steps in the knowledge and dissemination of Islamic Toledo

The Islamic Culture Foundation and the association Museo de Santa Cruz, ¡Vivo! sign a collaboration [...]

Rabat and Sale: on the traces of al-Andalus

After the first heritage tour in Sale, held last May, on 29 June the Islamic [...]

An Ecological Gardening Guide (Guide de jardinage écologique)

The Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), through its project “Bouregreg Gardening School of Med-O-Med“, located in [...]

Happy Feast of Sacrifice, or Greater Feast