The Three Cultures Foundation unveils the cultural and scientific ins and outs of Andalusian Cordoba in the Al-Andalus Chair in April

The Al-Andalus Chair of the Three Cultures Foundation continues during the month of April with the presentation of the book "Los sabios de Qurtuba", by its author, the historian Virginia Luque, this Thursday 25th at 19.00. 

Cordoba, the Andalusian Qurțuba, is one of a group of cities whose importance in the history of the Mediterranean is obvious, as were Athens, Rome, Alexandria and Istanbul at different times. Its heyday is directly associated with the period when it was the metropolis of Al-Andalus, from the mid-8th century AD until the disintegration of the Caliphate in 1031. 

A political, cultural and scientific nerve centre, during this period Cordoba became the base for researchers and intellectuals who, as well as contributing new advances, collected, preserved and disseminated classical Greco-Roman and Eastern knowledge. Even after their political decline, and in exile, their wake continued to give birth to authors who continued to contribute their wisdom during the Middle Ages, thus laying the foundations for the Renaissance. 

This book is both entertaining and historically accurate, and reveals the inhabitants of Qurtuba, from the great philosophers such as Averroes and Maimonides to the less famous scholars of this period, who also contributed to the cultural splendour of the city. Without missing the grace of the zejeleros, the expertise of the inventors or the innovative treatments of doctors of the three religious faiths. A cultural and scientific legacy that has survived to the present day.  

Virginia Luque Gallegos is a historian, master in architecture and heritage and researcher on the historical connections between Al-Andalus and the Arab world. She is a member of the Network of Experts in Cultural Heritage and of the Spanish Society of Arab Studies. Dedicated to consultancy and training in Cultural Management, Heritage and Museums, Virginia has produced and curated numerous exhibitions and has promoted dozens of plans and projects related to the interpretation and enhancement of heritage, cultural management, local development and museography, owning numerous publications on these subjects. Her blog "El diván de Nur", with more than 80,000 visits, has thousands of followers in Spain, Latin America and the Arab World.  

In the presentation of her work she will be accompanied by Emilio González Ferrín, professor of Islamology at the University of Seville, dedicated to the cultural reading of Islam and its presence in Europe, such as Al-Andalus.