Tag Archives: al-Andalus

Sowing heritage: Andalusi botany in the gardens of the Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo)

The Centre for Studies on Islamic Toledo (Islamic Culture Foundation) continues collaborating with the Museo de [...]

02
Dec
The Royal Botanical Garden and FUNCI launch the Andalusi Trail

Coinciding with World Environment Day, this route was presented, which brings together 15 plants linked [...]

05
Jun
The Arabs’ age-old invention against drought

The severity of the drought is a growing problem in many parts of Spain. In [...]

22
May
Water and medicine in al-Andalus

According to the physician and vizier of Granada Ibn al-Khatib (14th century), in his ‘Book [...]

17
Mar
Agronomy and botany in the Taifa of Toledo

Sergio Isabel Ludeña – FUNCI The sovereigns of the Banu Di-l-Nun dynasty of the Taifa [...]

02
Feb
The agricultural landscape of Al-Andalus

The period of Al-Andalus (8th-15th century) meant a great advance in the sciences of agronomy, [...]

08
May
A New Med-O-Med member, The Palace of Galiana

Including the Galiana Palace  (Toledo, Spain) into the cooperation platform “Med-O-Med, cultural landscapes of the [...]

27
Jan
The Islamic garden, a source of Norman identity in Palermo’s Conca d’oro

In the central part of the Mediterranean lies an island of about 25,711 km², whose [...]

27
May
The real origin of European tulips

It is widely believed that tulips were introduced into Europe through Holland, a country which [...]

04
May
Faraján and its singular agrosystem

Not far away from Faraján urban centre (from the Arabic farhan, happy place), in Malaga [...]

12
Apr
Museum of Environmental History

The Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), through its Med-O-Med network, just signed an agreement with the [...]

07
Jun
The use of lavender in Al-Andalus

With its purple spikes, lavender seduces both bees and people through its never-ending rectilinear furrows, [...]

17
Jul
The grapewine legacy of Al-Andalus

CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain) researchers have discovered pruning and grape wine propagation [...]

15
Dec
A musical interlude

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

03
Sep
El enigma del agua en Al-Andalus

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

10
Mar
Visits to the exhibition “Al-Andalus, a culture of Water”

During the last week, the Islamic Culture Foundation organized some private visits around the Andalusi [...]

16
May
The water in al-Andalus, subject of debate in Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada and Toledo

In the last few weeks, we have been carrying out the tour of presentations and [...]

18
Sep
“The Water of al-Ándalus”, in Frigiliana

The 3 Cultures Festival of Frigiliana concluded successfully with a large number of assistants, both [...]

29
Aug
The quince

A fruit that often appears in poems on gardens and nature is the quince. A [...]

18
Jun
The Spanish Muslim garden. The gardens of al-Andalus and its heritage

Our collaborators Manuel Casares and José Tito, from the University of Granada, have recently presented [...]

27
Mar
“Gardens of al-Andalus” in Dos Hermanas

The exhibition “Gardens of al-Andalus” travels now to Dos Hermanas, Seville, in collaboration with the [...]

27
Jan
Vegetables from the orchards of Al-Andalus

The following are just some of the species which were imported or consolidated and the [...]

23
Sep
The Bronx celebrates the Gardens of the Alhambra

May 21–August 21 Travel to southern Spain in just an afternoon. This unprecedented exhibition explores [...]

23
Apr
Cultural landscapes in Med-O-Med

One of the characteristics of Islamic civilisation since early times has been its special admiration [...]

20
Mar
The sugar’s crops in al-Andalus

“…A number of exotic crops had to be grown under irrigation, acclimatising them for the [...]

08
Feb
“Gardens of al-Andalus” travels to Saudi Arabia

In the XIII anniversary of the birth of Al-Andalus, the exhibition “Gardens of Al-Andalus” has [...]

05
Jan
Andalusi pharmacopeia recipe

Pharmacopeia is a science that becomes more developed in al-Andalus. In the complex recipes appears [...]

17
Nov
I Med-O-Med seminar – Inauguration from Cherif Abderrahman Jah

Granada, October 7th of 2009 “Bismillahi Arrahmani Irrahim. Today we met in this beautifull enclave [...]

18
Oct
Exhibition – The perfumes of al-Andalus

This itinerant exhibition was organised by the Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI) in collaboration with La [...]

15
Oct
Exhibition – The science in al-Andalus

This exhibition, organised by the  Islamic  Culture Foundation (FUNCI) in collaboration with La Caixa Foundation, re-creates various [...]

15
Oct