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At first sight, I was deeply impressed. I toured all the sections and each left an unforgettable impression. But what I liked most was the First Renaissance section. It wonderfully demonstrates how Islam and science were harmonized, presenting the works of the thinkers of that era in an outstanding way.

During the international expert forum “The Legacy of the Great Past — the Basis of an Enlightened Future” held in Tashkent, the country’s first auction house, Art Vernissage, presented the Center for Islamic Civilization in Uzbekistan with a rare 18th-century artifact a brass astrolabe created in Samarkand in 1711.

Tatiana Yemelyanenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences and leading researcher at the Russian Museum of Ethnography, shared her impressions of her visit to the Center for Islamic Civilization in Uzbekistan.

A Khotan carpet with a two-hundred-year history has been presented to the museum exhibition of the Center for Islamic Civilization in Uzbekistan. This valuable artifact was gifted by the Museum of Islamic Studies in the UK, on behalf of the Cambridge Centre for Russian Studies, during the international forum “The Legacy of the Great Past — the Basis of an Enlightened Future” held in Tashkent.