Tag Archives: Literature
Communications
New collaborations for FUNCI in Castilla-La-Mancha
Last October, we had the pleasure of sealing a collaboration agreement with the Botanical Garden [...]
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Articles
Abu Dhabi, five unique objects
We naturally view the world through our own cultural lens: The Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu [...]
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Communications
Islamic neo-medievalism in Madrid’s Tetuán neighbourhood
Last October we held several activities aimed at revaluing and disseminating the heritage of the [...]
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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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Mahmud Ali Makki: poet of dialogue between cultures
With this article, written by Mohamed Gomaa Tawfik, we remember Dr. Mahmud Ali Makki, a [...]
Sep
Ibn Jubayr: An Andalusian Traveller for Penance
Between the eleventh and the fifteenth century, three great groups of civilizations were in contact [...]
Dec
FUNCI expands its bibliographic base with the Benumeya Database
The Islamic Culture Foundation has just published the Benumeya Database of Bibliography on North Africa [...]
Nov
Hanna Diyab and the The Thousand and One Nights
In 1709, Antoine Galland, renowned translator of The Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into [...]
Nov
Kalīla wa-Dimna: an inspiring literary-political fable.
Tristan Semiond – FUNCI In the 8th century, the Persian writer Ibn al-Muqaffa’ translated the [...]
Oct
Interfaith dialogue through travel literature
Dr. Mohamed Chtatou The rihla or travel literature has played an outstanding role in the [...]
Jul
The emergence of the Rihla or travel literature
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller”, Ibn Battuta [...]
Feb
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
Plague and poetry in the Middle East authors
Plague, pandemic and pestilence have long been themes for writers, historians and poets, from Giovanni [...]
Mar
All the lands were sea
Aramco World magazine reproduces an excerpt from the book All the Lands Were Sea, by [...]
Mar
We present the book homage to Julio Caro Baroja
Last Saturday June 1st took place the presentation of the book Not of the Letter [...]
Jun
An epistemological reparation of the Andalusi agronomy
The “Modernity/Colonial” movement is a line of thought appeared in South America at the beginning [...]
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
We participate in the Spanish-Arab Book Fair
On March 15th-17th, 2018, the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation will hold, in Seville, [...]
Mar
Leo Tolstoy’s view about Muhammad
“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider God as [...]
Jun
Hadith Bayad wa Riyad Manuscript
Elena López Cuenca The purpose of this work is to account for the subject matter [...]
Jan
International Short Story Contest
The spanish network of Anna Lindh Foundation, wich the Islamic Culture Foundation belongs, announces the [...]
Feb