Category Archives: Library

The library is an ever-growing repository in which the Med-O-Med community can find research and scientific publications –fully or partially reproduced- that could be of interest due to their content being related to the subject of the program and its geographical scope.

Un guide de jardinage écologique Med-O-Med

La Fondation de la Culture Islamique (FUNCI), à travers son projet « Ecole de jardinage [...]

02
Jun
L’École de Jardinage Bouregreg

Cliquez sur les liens ci-dessous pour en savoir plus sur l’École de Jardinage Bouregreg. Cliquez [...]

31
Dec
Vernacular names of species of Opuntia (Cactaceae) in Moroccan Arabic: Mechanisms of phytonymic lexicon production in Arabic

Joaquín Bustamante Costa. 2019. The languages that extend outside their original floristic sphere develop, to [...]

13
Dec
Tulips: An Ornamental Crop in the Andalusian Middle Ages

Tulips: An Ornamental Crop in the Andalusian Middle Ages. The authors are working on the [...]

06
Sep
Wind dynamics study in Southern East of Morocco

This article is part of the book called: “The region of Ziz (Southeast Morocco. Features [...]

27
Jun
The living farming heritage of the Dílar River in Granada

The last issue of ‘e-rph‘ – Electronic Journal of Historical Heritage (in Spanish language) – [...]

27
Jun
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Environmental Education

The proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Environmental Education (WEEC, Marrakech, 9-14 June 2013) [...]

27
Jun
Nomenclatural contributions to two varieties of Myrtus communis

The lectotypification of the Linnaean names Myrtus communis var. baetica and var. tarentina (Myrtaceae) is [...]

01
Jun
The Forgotten Myrtle of the Alhambra Gardens of Granada

In the Alhambra (Granada, Spain), and in other Moorish locations, several individuals of the original [...]

01
Jun
The Moorish Myrtle, History, and Recovery of Alhambra Garden Lost Species

The gardens of the Alhambra and the Generalife (Granada, Spain) present several hundred years old [...]

01
Jun
The Zootechnia in the Arabic agricultural texts

El trabajo ha sido realizado consultando directamente ocho textos agrícolas árabes, o escritos en árabe, [...]

28
Aug
Water and fragrances in Islamic gardens, getting close to the spiritual

The Arabic words Hadiqah, riyad, janna, raudah refer to the garden in its classical sense, [...]

04
Nov
Nature and Islam

According to the Islamic Tradition “Nature was created as a source of inspiration for spiritual [...]

07
Oct
A musical interlude

Sometime during 821,an elegant man disembarked a the port of Algeciras. His name was ibn [...]

03
Sep
The Islamic Garden

This seminar is a compilation of works of many scholars who have very keenly studied [...]

25
Aug
El enigma del agua en Al-Andalus

We are glad to inform you that on the occasion of the presentation events of [...]

10
Mar
Islam and Nature. Natural balance is based on Divine balance

  Balance in nature and environment was mentioned in the Qur’an and should be maintained: [...]

03
Feb
Conservation not Confrontation

It has been a joy to discover the article that ‘Historic Gardens Review’ devotes to [...]

22
Jan
Tulips: An Ornamental Crop in the Andalusian Middle Ages

The authors are working on the project “Crop Flora of al-Andalus,” which aims to recover [...]

02
Oct
The Mediterranean garden

En: Cuadernos de Arquitectura del Paisaje. Tarragona. Ediciones de Horticultura S.L.,  2007.- Vol. 9. -Pag. [...]

26
Jun
The palm forest of Elche: management and conservation

Our friend and collaborator Mercedes Aranzueque has published this interesting article on her blog, about [...]

15
Jan
The Royal Botanic Garden of Jordan

The Royal Botanic Garden of Jordan Our friends of the The Royal Botanic Garden of Jordan [...]

11
Dec
The Moorish Myrtle, History and Recovery of Alhambra Garden lost species

The gardens of the Alhambra and the Generalife (Granada,Spain) present several hundred years old specimens of [...]

03
Dec
The Guadalquivir

By Antonio Arjona Castro, Director of the Instituto de Estudios Califales de la Real Academia [...]

05
Oct
A Wadi runs through it

Down by the lake, Hussein Al-Doseri is beaming. “Before all this, there were no services [...]

20
Feb
Seeds of High Asia

  What connects seed banks in Syria, Russia and New Zealand to Khuvaydo Ismatuloyev, a [...]

20
Feb
The case of the murabitun / amrabd, ancient sacred natural sites in al Hoceima National Park, Morocco

Established in 2004 after a disastrous earthquake, the National Park of al Hoceima, a IUCN [...]

12
Dec
The ballerina of the Generalife and the cypress architecture

One of the most characteristic features of the gardens and orchards of Granada during the [...]

16
Sep
The historic man-made soils of the Generalife garden (La Alhambra, Granada, Spain)

We studied the soils of the Patio de la Acequia garden of the Generalife, a [...]

22
Mar
The Orotava Garden: a walk through history of him

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08
Mar