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We must look to the French Revolution if we are to understand the origin of the ideology and violence of the Islamic State. For some weeks now there have been insinuations that the Islamic State and its ideologies are some kind of throwback to a distant past. Frequently couched in language such as that used last week by British Deputy …

If the Sephardim have obtained historical reparation from Spain, why not the Moriscos? The descendants of those Moriscos expelled from Spain in the 17th century do not hide a certain feeling of “exclusion” and demand the same treatment from Spain as that reserved for the Sephardic Jews. Their surnames are Loubaris (from Olivares), Bargachi (from Vargas) Buano (from Bueno), Sordo, …

Spain surprised, without warning, by making public its intention to grant Spanish nationality on a discretionary basis to approximately a quarter of a million Sephardim, the Jews who were expelled from Spain during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, who were the promoters of the Inquisition tribunals. In principle, the Spanish decision is not at all surprising, …

The Balañá Group, owner of the land, has flatly denied that it is negotiating the conversion of the old Monumental bullring into a large mosque built thanks to a donation from an emir of Qatar. This is the information that has been published since last January by some media outlets and that emerges and resurfaces, with increasingly extravagant details that …

We are all shocked and terrified by the images and news coming out of Gaza showing the burned and mutilated bodies of our Muslim brothers and sisters, men, women and children, trapped with nowhere to flee or hide, killed in their own homes with lethal bombs and missiles. The images break our hearts; and how could they not when it …

Introduction Life in the cities and the many occupations have led Muslim communities to make use of sheets and schedules that mark the time of the salawat. In them, two fields that were familiar since post-classical antiquity have coincided, with greater or lesser success: fiqh and astronomy. As is well known, the belief fostered scientific knowledge – particularly mathematics and …

On Sunday October 5 was held in the Alamillo Park, the Eid al Adha prayer. Eid al Adha, which could be translated as Celebration of Sacrifice is the major Muslim holiday (or Aid-al Kebir (Great Feast) that commemorates the passage recorded in both the Koran and the Bible, which shows the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an …