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Interview with Hajj Jalid Nieto.Founding Trustee of the Seville Mosque Foundation. WHERE DOES THE STRENGTH AND UNIQUENESS OF THE FESTIVAL LIE? Fundamentally, it is born as an ENCOUNTER between two potentialities. On the one hand, a group of people, who had made a deep exercise of reflection and search in their own roots and history and wanted to make this …

Muslims in Spain live orphaned of an entity to orient and guide them in the serene exercise of their faith, all this combined with their social duties as citizens. In this chaotic framework propitiated by a CIE-UCIDE, incapable of creating a minimum of rules and activity in favor of their community, hope resurfaces when we come across projects such as …

Opening ceremony of the XVI international symposium. “Aesthetics, translation and interfaith dialogue.” XXII Jornadas de Cultura Islámica de Almonaster la Real, HuelvaOctober 8, 2022 Assalamualeikum, peace to all, good morning. I am here, invited by the Exmo. City Council of this beautiful town of the Sierra, to share this table with the illustrious people who accompany me. I thank the …

(This lecture was delivered in Mértola, Portugal, on May 21, 2022, at the XI Islamic Festival of that city). Assalam mualeykum. Good afternoon. Before I begin, I would like to thank the city council of Mértola and local authorities, the organizers of this Islamic Festival and the Seville Mosque Foundation for their invitation to share an afternoon of joint reflection …

Muslims and education, a hope for the times Muhammad Mujtar Medinilla V ANDALUSIAN MEETINGS March 18, 2022 Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim I thank my son, Idris, for this recitation of the Quran and Hayy Khalid for his kind introduction. Thank you all for your assistance. These verses we have just heard belong to the beginning of the Surah of the Merciful, …

The term Mawlid is the name given to the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.). Also used with the same meaning is the word Mawlud which literally means “the Born” (in vulgar pronunciation Mulud). The personality of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) made a strong impression on his contemporaries and everything about him acquired enormous importance and significance. From …

Authorities of Almonaster, ladies and gentlemen! I would like to thank the Mayor of Almonaster, Mr. Jacinto Vázquez, the Councillor for Culture, Ms. Elisabet Moya González, and all the people of Almonaster, as well as the Seville Mosque Foundation and its president, Ibrahim Hernández, for offering me this table in this emblematic place, at the Islamic Culture Conference of Almonaster …