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The Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI) seeks to demonstrate the achievements of Islamic culture and civilisation, not just in terms of the past but also showing how they can serve to meet present and future challenges.
Preservation of our heritage and environment are today matters of prime importance, and this is the context for the project viagra sale usa which forms part of the programme entitled MEDOMED, Cultural Landscapes of the Mediterranean and Middle East, receives the support of the Spanish Ministry of the Environment, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and the Spanish National Plan for the Alliance of Civilisations.   Â
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Over the centuries, Islamic civilisation has shown a marked interest in nature, based on Koranic premises whereby the contemplation of nature can be a fount of knowledge.
According to Islamic tradition, nature was created as a source of spiritual inspiration and also as sustenance. But this does not give human beings the right to exploit it and dominate it indiscriminately. They are just its managers, its beneficiaries.
This love of nature led Moslems to create beautiful gardens for contemplation and enjoyment, as can still be seen in the Alhambra in Granada, in Syria, Turkey, Iran and the Maghreb. They also developed agrarian, experimental and acclimatisation schemes, particularly in al-Andalus, which were the precursors of the botanic gardens of the Renaissance.
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These examples present a style of gardening that was characterised by the use of both native and exotic species, many of them having been transferred from eastern regions of the Mediterranean, or from North Africa and the Near East.
These botanical species had a marked ornamental value but were also appreciated for their fruit, wood, resin and medicinal properties. Aesthetic values were thus combined with the utility of plants that were acclimatised for agricultural or therapeutic purposes. They were generally grown in orchards in which production was complemented by a design created to please the senses. These gardens and orchards were sometimes associated with the power and nobility of their rulers and over time achieved great beauty and complexity, providing one of the most exciting chapters in the history of gardening.
The gardens of al-Andalus were the result of great cultural wealth and high levels of technical and scientific know-how not only regarding cultivation but also and especially water management, biological pest and disease control and the balanced use of soil and natural fertilisers.
Today this management method would be called organic. It also fits in perfectly with today’s commitment to the correct use and conservation of biodiversity and the sustainability criteria that characterise the modern paradigm for relations between human beings and natural resources.
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Despite the premises in the Islamic tradition for the correct management of nature and natural resources and the great wealth of their landscape heritage, the socioeconomic situation of the Moslem-majority Arab countries of the Mediterranean basin has largely led to the abandonment of botanic gardens.
All the Mediterranean countries are today facing environmental problems such as water shortage, loss of natural heritage, pollution and a poorly-developed rural environment. The botanic gardens in the south and east Mediterranean area suffer from a lack of funds for preserving biodiversity and for agronomic research which might help the whole of the Mediterranean area. Other problems include a lack of specific legislation, the absence of plans to build understanding and to educate young people and insufficient funding for research.
The network of environmental agents in the Mediterranean area is working to step up activity and encourage the sharing of information on conservation, as well as research and education. With its knowledge of Islamic culture and tradition and its experience in intercultural projects and heritage management, the Islamic Culture Foundation can help achieve successful cooperation amongst agents in different parts of the Mediterranean.
A very small number of botanic gardens remains in North Africa, but they are insufficient to ensure in-situ and ex-situ conservation of the flora and phylogenetic resources of this region. Nor do they fulfil their potential as contributors to the region’s tourism and culture and thus to its development.
In the Mediterranean area, the botanic garden has traditionally often been confused with the historic garden or the recreational garden-orchard, sometimes associated with palaces or with the great, historic buhairas that are surrounded by farming land. There are also botanic-tourism gardens with little scientific, educational or even historical and cultural interest, which offer a globalised selection of exotic flora.
A number of historic gardens with great landscape and even botanic value have, however, been conserved which, with relatively little effort, could be transformed into modern botanic gardens. Specially interesting cases being those of the Jardin d’Essai du Hamma of Algiers, and the Jardin d’Essais Botaniques in Rabat, currently being rehabilitated with the collaboration of the FUNCI
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With the Network of Botanic Gardens in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, the Islamic Culture Foundation seeks to recover the scientific and conservationist spirit that is inherent in Islamic culture.
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The project, which is already under way in various countries in the Mediterranean area, focuses on: rehabilitation of historic gardens dating from Islamic times or which are architecturally and botanically Islamic in style, and the recovery of abandoned historic botanic gardens. It also covers the creation of new botanic gardens, as well as collaboration and the sharing of information amongst existing botanic gardens.
These projects go hand in hand with activities to promote understanding, conservation, education and training.
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Botanic gardens currently have an important social function. In addition to their scientific and cultural dimensions and the conservation of biodiversity, they play an important educational role and offer powerful incentives for tourism. They can also serve as a useful tool for local economic development, fighting poverty by providing vocational training, generating jobs and enhancing the integration of different social sectors.
Their educational function enables them to help promote protection of the environment. They also constitute places of rest in cities that are frequently devoid of green spaces, providing a focal point for social interaction and integration.
The Network of Botanic Gardens in the Mediterranean and Middle East will encourage collaboration and agreements amongst the different botanic gardens in the region so that they can all participate in promotion, sharing their ideas, experiences and botanical collections.
The Network will allow botanic gardens in the Mediterranean and Middle East to participate in the conservation of plants and biotopes that are at risk, and to act as consultants in environment protection projects.
It will encourage them to organise seminars and conferences, thus enhancing their educational role.
Participation by or coordination with the public authorities and with other networks and associations in the region will also be promoted.
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School pupils and adolescents
Teachers
Botanists and agronomists
Historians, architects and landscape gardeners
The general public
Unemployed young people and women
The disabled
Workers taken on to implement and maintain the projects
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The project, which has been presented to various international organisations, is already under way in a number of countries in collaboration with different institutions.
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In Spain it is the Islamic Culture Foundation that coordinates the network from Madrid. This involves:Â
Organising periodic scientific meetings on the current situation of conservation in the countries where the network is active, changes achieved through cooperation and plans for coordinated action by all the members.
Providing a channel for the exchange of information and for supporting new projects for cooperation within and outside the network.
Producing publications on the work of the network members. The first of these is to be a map of the current reality in conservation centres in the countries of the eastern and southern Mediterranean, taking into account their capability for carrying out research programmes, their educational activities and the legal framework in which they work.
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In Morocco, the Islamic Culture Foundation has signed agreements for collaboration with the INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) and other bodies such as the University of Castile-La Mancha to rehabilitate the Jardin d’Essais Botaniques in Rabat, a botanic garden created at the beginning of the twentieth century by the great French landscape architect Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier.
Given its significance and importance, this 42-acre garden, already being restored, will be a reference not just in Morocco but throughout the Maghreb.
It is a large acclimatisation garden, created essentially for agronomic but also ornamental purposes, associated with Morocco’s national agronomic research institute. It focuses on plant species of economic interest that can be developed agriculturally and for the textile sector, among other uses.
The Islamic Culture Foundation participates by offering landscaping and botanic advisory services as this garden is considered to link in with the Islamic, and especially the al-Andalus tradition, with large areas given over to native and exotic species grown for scientific, ornamental and economic purposes.
The Foundation aims to restore the previous function and spirit of the Jardin d’Essais Botaniques, strictly following restoration principles to maintain its original design and purpose. The aim is that this garden should represent the typical garden of acclimatisation of the colonial period but having its own personality based on its agronomic purpose and its collections.
The garden should also be a landmark for its research and conservation work, as well as for its teaching and social activities and its role for tourism as part of the city’s cultural heritage.
The Foundation has also completed an Andalusian Garden project to recover both the plant species grown in Moslem Spain and the morphology, irrigation system and thinking of the gardens of that age. An Andalusian “Vergel” orchard is to be designed for the acclimatisation and recovery of Spanish and Moroccan endemic species.
This should allow both the INRA and the University of Castile-La Mancha, through its Higher Technical School for Agronomists in Albacete, to exchange genetic material and jointly carry out agronomic research.
Another of the Foundation’s projects is a permanent virtual exhibition on gardens in al-Andalus and the conservation techniques used. This will provide audiovisual displays inside the pavilion, on the front wall and in different locations within the garden, offering interactive learning.
Together with the Association Maroc, Nature et Culture, the Foundation has created a Garden of Senses with facilities for the disabled to promote awareness about the disabled, and to offer education and training with a view to their obtaining jobs within the Rabat Jardin d’Essais Botaniques itself.
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The City Council of Aleppo in Syria has set aside 3,000 square yards for the Islamic Culture Foundation in the 42-acre Assabil Public Park, which dates from the times of the French Protectorate, to create a garden of Andalusian inspiration in its landscaping and botanic aspects, fitting in harmoniously with its surroundings.
The garden will have a Nature Centre with a permanent educational exhibition on the different aspects of the Andalusian Arab garden from a historical and ecological standpoint.
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The history and functioning of the Aleppo region ecosystems are also to be studied, with explanations of aspects such as the cultivation of cotton, the ecology of the Aleppo pine, traditional water distribution systems and current environmental problems and how to solve them.
A variety of temporary workshops will also be held in these same facilities on recycling, medicinal plants and migratory birds. There will also be a permanent workshop on how to set up and maintain public gardens, the aim being to provide young people at risk of social exclusion with training while aiding in the maintenance of green zones.
This garden will not just serve to enhance the cultural and tourist potential of this important Syrian city but also to consolidate cultural and historical links between Spain and Syria.
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The Islamic Culture Foundation is working with the University of Jerusalem on the construction of the Jerusalem Andalusian Botanic Garden at the University of al-Quds, on a half-acre plot attached to the Faculty of Science and Technology. The aim is for it to include a botanical library, a seed bank and a herbarium. The library collections will place a special focus on the history of science in al-Andalus.
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Spanish Ministry for the Environment, and for Rural and Marine Affairs
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources – IUCN (Spain)
University of Castile-La Mancha (Spain)
National Plan for the Alliance of Civilisations (Spain)
ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique – INRA (Morocco)
Association Maroc, Nature et Culture (Morocco)
Spanish Embassy, Rabat (Morocco)
Aleppo City Council (Syria)
University of al-Quds in Jerusalem (Palestine Territories)
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The Network of Botanic Gardens in the Mediterranean and Middle East is run by a team of specialists from the Islamic Culture Foundation and from other Spanish and international institutions in the fields of architecture, archaeology, landscaping, botanic garden management, botany and history.
Project Director: Cherif Abderrahman Jah, President, Islamic Culture Foundation
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Encarna Gutiérrez (Secretary General)
Yolanda Guardione (Delegate for the Maghreb)
Inés Eléxpuru (Communications Manager)
Margarita LĂłpez (Research Manager)
NĂ©stor MartĂnez (Administration)
Mercedes Corujo (Documentation)
José Luján (Volunteer scheme)
Aude Labadie (Projects)viagra sale usaÂ
Esteban Hernández (University of Córdoba and University of Castile-La Mancha)
Antonio Almagro (School of Arabic Studies, Higher Council for Scientific Research, Granada)
MĂłnica Luengo (ICOMOS)
Alfonso Jiménez (Public Foundation, Botanic Garden of Castile-La Mancha)
Marta Navarro (Silviculturist)Â
Enrique Deckler (Silviculturist)Â
Sara MartĂnez (Silviculturist)Â
Fidel Garrido (Architect)
Javier GuillĂ©n (Garden historian) Â
Lola Robador (University of Seville)
Benito Valdés (University of Seville)
Imane Thami Alami (INRA, Morocco)
Zineb Benrahmoune (National Forestry School, Morocco)
Danielle Oubnichou (Association Maroc, Nature et Culture)
Faisal Cherradi (Architect)
Miguel Ripoll (Designer)
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