A media event titled "History and Cultural Heritage of the Great Timurids" was organized at the Casa Árabe Cultural Center in the Spanish capital.
The conference, dedicated to the 690th anniversary of Amir Temur's birth, was attended by representatives of scientific and academic circles, cultural institutions, the expert community, and ambassadors from Asia, the European Union, and Latin America. Speakers at the event included Farrukh Tursunov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan to the Kingdom of Spain; Khayriddin Sultanov, Advisor to the President of Uzbekistan and People's Writer; Firdavs Abdukhalikov, Director of the Center for Islamic Civilization in Uzbekistan and Chairman of the Board of the World Society for the Study, Preservation, and Popularization of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan (WOSCU); Khurshid Fayziev, Director of the State Museum of the History of the Timurids; Jesus Gil Fuensanta, Secretary General of the Spanish Association of Orientalists and Professor at the Center for Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid; Frederic Bressand, President of the Association of Timurids; Charlotte Kramer, President of Mueller & Schindler; and Alexander Wilhelm, Vice President of Mueller & Schindler.
In accordance with the resolution of the head of state on the worthy celebration of the 690th anniversary of the birth of Amir Temur, April was declared the month of Amir Temur, this significant date began in Uzbekistan, and from April 8 to 12, an international scientific and practical conference was held in Tashkent and Samarkand.
It was noted that the Center of Islamic Civilization, established at the initiative of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, is a unique scientific and educational center aimed at studying the country's more than three-thousand-year history and promoting the contribution of the Uzbek people to the development of world science and culture; an exhibition dedicated to the 690th anniversary of Amir Temur has been organized here, featuring unique manuscripts, maps, and artifacts from the Timurid era; in recent years, more than 1,500 unique exhibits have been returned to Uzbekistan.
The fact that the conference was held in Spain - the birthplace of the famous Spanish ambassador and chronicler Ruy González de Clavijo, who visited Samarkand and left invaluable information about the reign of Amir Temur, increased its significance. Clavijo's works are rightfully among the most important sources on the history of Timur and the Timurid era. Thus, the event became a symbol of the centuries-old international dialogue between the East and the West.