Tag Archives: Islam
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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 rise of hydraulic clocks in Morocco
From the water clock erected at the Koutoubia gate by the Almohads to the numerous [...]
Mar
Muslims in the Viceroyalty of Peru
To speak on the subject of the Arabs in the viceroyalty, it would be necessary [...]
Feb
Tranquility, or sakînah, in Islam
Tranquility is the character, or state, of that which is calm, serene, without anxiety, without [...]
Nov
Eid al-Adha Mubarak
Make use of medical treatment, for Allah has not made a desease without appointing a [...]
Jul
Susana Mangana joins FUNCI
This month we have a reason to celebrate. Professor and researcher Susana Mangana Porteiro has [...]
Jul
Why Do We Need “Islamic Feminism”?
The Observatory of Islamophobia in the Media recovers this article published by the anthropologist Ziba [...]
Jun
Ivan Agueli, a painter against Islamophobia
Review of the book Anarchist, Artist, Sufi: The Politics, Painting, and Esotericism of Ivan Aguéli, [...]
Jun
The Crusades: between religion and politics, fiction and reality
The Crusades shaped the European Middle Ages, providing this chapter of History with an abundant [...]
Apr
Ramadan unifies the Islamic Ummah in belief, thought and practice
Mohamed Chtatou – Université Internationale de Rabat Instituted in Medina in the year 624, the [...]
Apr
The emergence of the Rihla or travel literature
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller”, Ibn Battuta [...]
Feb
Andalusia, mon amour, part 2
This is the second part of Dr. Chtatou’s text on Al-Andalus, its history and development. [...]
Jan
Muslim women of Castile
Due to its gender identity and its religious option, the Muslim women of Castile were [...]
Dec
Uzbekistan, Pearl of the Eastern Muslim world
At the crack of dawn, bright summer sunshine basking the city of Tashkent — the [...]
Dec
The Spread of Islam in Ancient Africa
Article written by Mark Cartwright and originally published in Ancient.eu on May 2019. Following the conquest of [...]
Nov
Astonishing mosques in China
China has an ambiguous stance in regards to institutionalized faith. On the one hand, the [...]
Oct
Ibn ‘Arabi, the Andalusian Sufi Prince of Humility
Sufism designates the effort of internalization of the Qur’anic Revelation, the break with the purely [...]
Oct
Happy Feast of Sacrifice 2020 / 1441
The real meaning of Aid al-Adha, or the sacrifice festivity, goes beyond the animal sacrifice, [...]
Jul
The Cambridge Mosque garden, a balm for the soul
A year since the ‘eco-mosque’ opened, Islamic garden specialist Emma Clark explains the traditional principles [...]
Jul
Eid Mubarak Said!
We wish you a happy end of Ramadan. We hope that this month has contributed [...]
May
Lailat al-Qadr, or the Night of Destiny
We are close to the month of Ramadan and, with it, to the Night of [...]
May