On December 6, Organizing Committee of Qur’an Competition held a meeting at the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan. Abdulhakim qori Matkulov gave detailed information about the organizational works carried out by his team.
Particularly, he mentioned the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s initiative on organizing Qur’an Contest which he expressed on September 1, 2017 while visiting “Khazrati Imam” complex. The leader of organizing committee also mentioned that candidates for the contest participation are still being registered, contest judges are being trained and the trained judges are visiting regions for training regional judges, wall papers and posters are being printed, all the activities of the organizing committee are being covered on various websites.
Usmankhan Alimov, chairman of Muslim Board of Uzbekistan, muftiy gave detailed instructions on holding all regional stages of the competition in a high spirit. Muftiy stressed that any form of nepotism must be strictly avoided. In his speech Usmankhan Alimov noted that a number of international experts are observing the organizational process which would lay the bases for the future international contests. A special gratitude was expressed for the initiative and all the support fostered by Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan.
The meeting ended with by Yahya qori Turdiev’s sincere prayers.









An international scientific seminar dedicated to the 150th birth anniversary of prominent Jadid movement figure Mahmudkhoja Behbudi was held at the library of the Toyo Bunko Research Institute with the participation of scholars from Uzbekistan, Japan, and Türkiye, reports Dunyo IA.
The seminar was attended by Professor Hisao Komatsu of the University of Tokyo, a leading researcher of the Jadid movement, and was organized with the support of the Mitsubishi Foundation. Participants discussed initiatives aimed at further studying and promoting the rich intellectual and cultural legacy of the Jadid movement in Central Asia.
Another event dedicated to Behbudi's legacy was jointly organized with the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. It brought together representatives of Japan's academic community, scholars from Uzbekistan and Türkiye, as well as students studying the Uzbek language.
The program featured a book exhibition and a screening of the documentary film Mahmudkhoja Behbudi. More than 20 films on the Jadid movement were also presented to the Japanese side to support further academic and educational research.