Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- With the assistance of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Malaysia, on 22-28 February, Bukhara will host the 3rd Naqshbandiya International Tourism Festival, organized in cooperation between the Malaysian World Sufi Center World Sufi Center, the Khokimiyat of Bukhara region , the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and other departments of our country.

In 2018 and 2019, the Naqshbandiya international tourism festivals were organized in Bukhara with the participation of more than 400 religious figures and followers of the Naqshbandi Sufi tariqa from Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey, Great Britain, Australia, USA, South Africa and others.

The World Sufi Center is a non-governmental organization headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. Nakshbandia is a Sufi brotherhood, which was named after its founder Bahauddin Nakshband (1318-1389), a native of Bukhara and an outstanding religious figure.

The main purpose of this festival is to recognize the merits of the great scientists of Uzbekistan in the development of Islam and world civilization, as well as visiting holy places, performing religious rites and getting acquainted with the main attractions of ziyorat tourism in the republic, Dunyo news agency reports.

At present, the Malaysian center, together with the travel company of Uzbekistan Farhan Travel, has developed tour packages that are sold in the tourist market of Malaysia and other countries.

More than 200 muftis, imams and followers of the Sufi tariqa Naqshbandiya from all over the world, in particular from Malaysia, Indonesia, France, Turkey, Switzerland, Portugal, Australia, Russia and other countries are expected to attend this event.

As part of the festival, pilgrimage tours to the shrines of the cities of Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent are planned. Among them are the memorial complexes of Bahouddin Nakshband, the route "seven holy feasts of Bukhara", the Miri Arab madrasah and the Kalyan mosque in Bukhara, the memorial complexes of Imam Bukhari, Imam Maturidi, architectural masterpieces of the Temurids era in Samarkand, the complexes of Khazrati Imam and Suzuk-ota, as well as the Center for Islamic Civilization under construction in Tashkent.

Religious figures will get acquainted with the Quran of Usman, which is the most ancient of the manuscript versions of the Holy Scripture, stored in Tashkent.