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Botanical references in the Qur’an: preserving history in a world of change
September 14, 20167:00 pm
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62)
7:00 pm
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
Casa Árabe has organized this conference on botany and the Qur’an along with the Madrid Royal Botanical Garden and the CSIC.
With the cooperation of the CSIC and the Madrid Royal Botanical Garden, Casa Árabe has organized a conference which will give us a closer look at the Qur’an from the perspective of botany. During her conference, Shahina A. Ghazanfar, an expert on Asian plants and a researcher at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London (www.kew.org/msc) will be discussing the plants mentioned in the Qur’an and some of the hadiths because they possess properties as foods or medicine, or for other historical, cultural or religious reasons. She will be talking to us about more than seventy plants, most of which have healing properties.
Climate change and the human impact on nature have kept many species from being able to thrive in their original habitats. The disappearance of a species means losing the history and culture associated with the original places where these plants once lived. This makes religious texts an important source of information that can help us preserve the cultural history of plants.
Further information on Shahina A. Ghazanfar’s background
Casa Árabe
CSIC and the Madrid Botanical Garden