Bringing history home: Uzbekistan’s Center for Islamic Civilization reclaims priceless artefacts

By&nbspDilbar Primova

Published on 20/10/2025 - 15:00 GMT+2

Guided by nationalist initiatives, nan Center for Islamic Civilization successful Tashkent has successfully returned astir 2,000 humanities Uzbek artefacts and manuscripts from abroad, while besides acquiring uncommon pieces done world auctions and partnerships.

Collaboration pinch institutions including State Customs Committee and world auction houses has played a captious domiciled successful recovering valuable objects erstwhile scattered crossed nan world.

The Center besides operates precocious restoration laboratories—the first of their benignant successful Uzbekistan—where experts sphere manuscripts, textiles, metalwork, and different historical materials.

By safeguarding and displaying these treasures, nan Center for Islamic Civilization intends to service arsenic a span betwixt past and present, celebrating hundreds of years of artistry, scholarship, and religion that proceed to style Uzbekistan’s taste identity.