Islamic Culture Foundation 

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 […]

CHERIF JAH ABDERRAHMÁN
(President, Islamic Culture Foundation)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Distinguished Guests.
It is a personal satisfaction for me to be here, in Marrakech, to address you on behalf of a Spanish cultural institution, since both our peoples, Moroccan and Spanish, have shared very important stages of our respective histories, such as the period on which I focus, […]

Inés Eléxpuru
Muslim women in general, and Moroccan women in particular, are often defined through the lens of a simplistic and over-dramatic cliché. This is at least the opinion of many Moroccan feminists such as Hayat Dinia, geographer and urban engineer, President of the association Le Féminin au Pluriel. Muslim women are almost invariably linked with […]

by Julio Caro Baroja
Even unseasoned readers in the field of History of Philosophy and Science, can easily realize that there have been many ways to search for Wisdom. One might even affirm that, through different periods, some approaches have been considered alternatively wrong and safe. This is a very old and memorable controversy.
When Sócrates […]

The exhibition entitled Science in the World of al-Andalus has opened on April 29 in San Sebastian (Spain) under the joint sponsorship of the Islamic Culture Foundation (Fundación de Cultura Islámica, FUNCI) and the Fundaciò “La Caixa”.
This is a roving exhibition which has already been brought to several cities in Spain and is curated by […]