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European maps created in the 17th- 18th centuries began to depict Central Asia not as a vague territory, but as a region hosting clearly defined scientific and trade centers such as Bukhara, Samarkand, and Khiva. Through these maps, one can see today at the exposition of the Islamic Civilization Center how European scholarship understood Uzbekistan.

For the first time, the original copies of four rare masterpieces of Eastern literature have been brought together in a single space at the exhibition of the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan.

A rare product of intellectual thought the replica of a chessboard and pieces dating to the era of Amir Temur is on display at the museum of the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan. According to one of the creators of this exhibit, Sardor Mahmudov, this chess set symbolically expresses Amir Temur’s view that the state and society are determined not by the pieces themselves, but by the relationships between them.

In Islamic scholarship, the determination of the qibla direction stimulated the development of astronomy and geometry. The Qibla compass displayed in the museum exhibition of the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan is a remarkable example of these scientific pursuits.