In 2007 ISESCO (the structure of IOC) announced Tashkent as the capital of Islamic culture.
Every year this organization announces three cities to be the Islamic cultural centers. One of the cities must be from Arabic countries, another one from Asia and the third one from Africa.
On IX conference of the ministers of culture of OIC three cities: Bukhara, Cairo (Egypt) and Bamako (Mali) were chosen as Islamic cultural centers of 2020.
Actually Bukhara has been Islamic cultural center for centuries. It was named as “The dome of Islam”. There is great meaning in the selection of Bukhara as the Islamic cultural center of 2020. It is worth mentioning that thousands of scholars who have contributed to the world civilization were born, lived and studied in this city.
Azamjon Abdurakhimov
The teacher of Tashkent Islamic Universities
“Study of Islamic civilization ISESCO” department
On May 10, 2018 German delegation headed by Andreas Auer was received by Ibrohim Inomov, Deputy Chairman and other employees of Muslim Board of Uzbekistan. In his opening speech he shared with the positive developments in religious sphere in Uzbekistan and talked how the government jointly with Muslim Board of Uzbekistan had been tackling the issue of radicalization of young people by means of preventive means which include intensive enlightenment works, meetings at educational establishments, online lessons and others.
In its turn Andreas Auer, the head of German delegation highly evaluated the positive development in Uzbekistan in all spheres including in religious one. He noted that it was pleasant to mention that German side was also bringing its more or less share into these positive improvements in Uzbekistan. He also noted that the organization was going to implement a number of projects in religious sphere jointly with German state university.
The meeting ended in friendship tone and guests expressed gratitude for warm reception.
Press Service,
Muslim Board of Uzbekistan