On 15 October Ibn Sina Foundation opened the exhibition \u201cThe Sun of Islam\u201d together with Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University and the Museum of the Islamic Culture at Kul Sharif Mosque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Copies of unique lists of the Quran and classical texts of the Islamic culture, particularly manuscripts of \u201cShakhnameh\u201d by Firdowsi and \u201cSeven Beauties\u201d from \u201cHamseh\u201d by Nizami were presented at the exhibition. As well, it included precious Tatar manuscripts of the XVIII-XIX centuries, such as \u201cQyissai Yusuf\u201d by Kul Ghali, \u201cNahj al-Faradis\u201d by Mahmud al-Sarai, and also the Qurans granted by Ibn Sina Foundation, particularly the texts of Baisonkur and Sultan Ibrahim who are the grandsons of Tamerlane. These manuscripts and texts play an important role in the Islamic culture. \u201cHamseh\u201d by Nizami is decorated by miniatures by Kamaletdin Behzad, a close friend of Alisher Navoi. The manuscript \u201cShakhnameh\u201d is provided by the foreword by Baisonkur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President of Ibn Sina Foundation Hamid Hadavimoghaddam spoke at the opening ceremony of the exhibition \u201cThe Sun of Islam\u201d. He told about the collaboration between the Foundation and Russian, particularly Kazan centers of Islamic studies, and he granted a gift edition of the translation of the meanings of the Quran to the Museum of the Islamic Culture. The scientific director of Ibn Sina Foundation Andrei Alexandrovich Lukashev presented the exhibition in detail. The chief of the Museum of the Islamic Culture and Art Ilnur Ildarovich Nizamiev, the deputy Mufty of the Republic of Tatarstan on the informational politics and the director of the Publishing House \u201cHudhur\u201d Rishat Ahtyamovich Hamidullin, the deputy director of Lobachevsky Scientific Library of the Kazan (Volga Region) Scientific Library Elmira Ishakovna Amerkhanova also delivered their speeches at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those who wish to visit the exhibition \u201cThe Sun of Islam\u201d at the Museum of the Islamic Culture in Kazan can buy a ticket<\/a> up to the 31 of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The TV-channel \u201cRussia 1\u201d has made a film on the exhibition \u201cThe Sun of Islam\u201d for the program \u201cTatarstan News\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n