Capital of Islamic Culture

Capital of Islamic Culture ( Arabic عاصمة الثقافة الإسلامية, DMG 'Āṣimat AT ṯaqāfa al-Islamiyya ) is a title that the Islamic Organization for Education, Science and Culture ( Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , ISESCO), headquartered in the Moroccan capital Rabat is awarded. It was first awarded to Mecca in 2005 , and since then the names have been issued to cities in the Arab, African and Asian regions.

ISESCO "Capital of Islamic Culture"

year	Arab region	African region	Asian region
2005	Mecca
2006	Aleppo	Timbuktu	Isfahan
2007	Fès / Tripoli	Dakar	Tashkent
2008	Alexandria	Djibouti	Lahore
2009	Kairouan	N'Djamena	Baku / Kuala Lumpur
2010	Tarim	Moroni	Dushanbe
2011	Tlemcen / Nouakchott	Conakry	Jakarta
2012	Najaf	Niamey	Dhaka
2013	Tripoli	Kano	Ghazni
2014	Sharjah	Ouagadougou	Bishkek
2015	Nizwa	Cotonou	Almaty
2016	Kuwait City	Freetown	Times
2017	Amman / Sannar	Kampala	Mashhad
2018	Manama	Libreville	Nakhchivan
2019	Jerusalem	Bissau	Bandar Seri Begawan
2020	Cairo	Bamako	Buxoro
2021	Doha	Banjul	Islamabad
2022	Damascus	Yaoundé	Bandung
2023	Benghazi	Mogadishu	Selangor
2024	Marrakech	Lomé	Kabul

Web links

• Website of ISESCO
• Sharjah is the 2014 Islamic Capital of Culture
• Sharjah Islamic Culture Capital

See also

• Cultural capital of the Arab world since 1996, annually by the Arab League awarded
• European Capital of Culture , annually by the European Union awarded
• List of European Capitals of Culture since 1985
• American Capital of Culture since 2000
• Cultural capital of Lithuania since 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Capitales de la culture islamique 2005-2014 ( Memento of August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) ISESCO
2. ^ Saudi Arabia celebrates Makkah as Muslims cultural capital Kuwait News Agency , September 18, 2005
3. ↑ Capitales de la culture islamique 2005-2014 ( Memento of August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) ISESCO sicc.ae
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} ISESCO: Capitals of Islamic Culture 2015-2024 ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).

Capital of Islamic Culture (alternative names of the lemma)
Capital of Islamic culture; Islamic Capital of Culture; Capitale de la culture islamique; Islamic Culture Capital