Islamic Culture Foundation 

Beyond al-Qaeda, Beyond al-Qaeda, Moroccans and Spaniards seek lost Andalus
By Sinikka Tarvainen
Rabat, Morocco (dpa)
In 1492 - the legend goes - Abu Abdallah Mohammed XI reined in his horse on a rocky outcrop overlooking the distinguished city of Granada. The Moorish king, also called Boabdil, had just handed over the keys of the last Muslim bastion […]

LOVER FROM PALESTINE
Your eyes
A thorn in my heart
Painful yet adorable
I shield it from the wind
And stab it deep through the night
Through pain
Its wound illuminates the darkness
Transforms my present into future
Dearer than my soul
And I shall forget as our eyes meet
That once we were together behind the gate
……….
Your words were my song
I tried singing
But winter replaced […]

“Si ce que tu as à dire n’est pas plus beau que le silence alors tais-toi.” The Prophet Muhammad
Hassan Massoudy is an artist for whom the word itself remains the most sublime creative force. His creations are a subtle mix of present and past, oriental and occidental, tradition and modernity.  The words and phrases, which […]

Al-Taj for Health and Heritage
Annual Report 2007
Making a Difference in our Community’s Health
Al-Taj Board Members are pleased to share with you our Annual Report – 2007.
As part of our commitment to transparency with our donors and community, we are proud to present our activities and a summary of our financial report. This report presents our […]

On Prophet Mohammad’s Birthday: A Man For All Seasons
Rajai Masri
April, 2007 
Tomorrow marks the 1437 years birthday of the Prophet Mohammad that’s widely celebrated in all the Moslem world.  Marked by Time Magazine in a Sondage years ago as the most influential personality in history, not sure of the exact criteria, Prophet Mohammad, adored and revered […]

By Lucien de Guise
Saudi Aramco World
March / April 2007 
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the founding of the World Tourism Organization’s Silk Road Tourism Project in 1994, there has been a steady rise in the number of visitors to Central Asia. Most come in pursuit of commerce, history, scenery or the […]

There were Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now, 2,200 years later, we are choosing the new Seven Wonders! 
You can help to choose seven new symbols of the world, vote now!
www.new7wonders.com
The Alhambra of Granada, in Spain, is one of the proposals
Historical introduction
The Alhambra was so called because of its reddish walls (in Arabic, («qa’lat al-Hamra’» […]

One of our lectors suggested us to visit some web sites about Touareg Culture in the North of Africa. On this purpose, we choosed some links to know more about this extense and unknown culture.
Touaregs origines
From: www.tuaregs.free.fr
Tuaregs have always lived in the north-west territories of Africa.
They live mainly in the Sahara desert. The geographical borders […]

Ibn Khaldun and the rise and fall of empires
Saudi Aramco World. September-October 2006
Written by Caroline Stone
Abu Zayd ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadhrami, 14th-century Arab historiographer and historian, was a brilliant scholar and thinker now viewed as a founder of modern historiography, sociology and economics. Living in one of humankind’s most turbulent centuries, he […]

A tangerine in Delhi
Tim Mackintosh-Smith 
Saudi Aramco World. April/March 2006
Ibn Battuta was born in 1304 in the Moroccan town of Tangier (hence his surname “al-Tanji”—”the Tangerine”) into a family of qadis, Islamic judges. His full name was no less than Shams al-Din Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn […]