NEW ISLAMIC CENTER TO OPEN IN TASHKENT.

The Uzbek governmenthas decided to establish a new center for the study of Islamicphilosophy and its relation to the history of the Uzbek people,Uzbek sources have told Monitor. Support for the new centerwill come from Kuwait’s Society for the Revival of the IslamicLegacy. The Kuwaitis will contribute computers to help processmanuscripts from Uzbekistan. This is the second such center tobe opened with Arab support; the first was the Turkmen Arab Universitythat will open this fall in Ashgabat.

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