[Discussion] CONF./CFP- Academy of al-Ma'mun in Khwarazm (X-XI c.), Oct. 2005, Uzbekistan

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From: Sardorkhon Umarov <beruni@globalnet.uz>

CONF./CFP- Academy of al-Ma'mun in Khwarazm (X-XI c.), Oct. 2005, Uzbekistan

International scientific conference in Uzbekistan on Academy of al-Ma'mun in
Khwarazm (X-XI centuries)

Uzbekistan is planning to organize international scientific conference,
dedicated to the 1000th anniversary from the establishment of the Academy of
al-Ma'mun in Khwarazm. The conference will be held at the end of October,
2005 in Khwarazm.

As it known Khwarazmshah Ma'mun b. Ma'mun (who was governor of Khwarazm during
1009-1017) concentrated at his court a number of eminent scholars, including Abu
Mansur b.Iraq (who lived 977-1010 in Khwarazm), al-Biruni (who lived 1004-1017
in Khwarazm), Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna, who lived 1004-1010 in Khwarazm), Abu
Sakhl al-Masikhi (who died in 1010 in Khwarazm), Abu-l-Khair b. al-Khammar and
others. Ma'mun b. Ma'mun created comfortable conditions for the flourishing of
sciences and majority of the above-mentioned scholars contributed to the
development of sciences.

The Organising Committee will provide all local expenses in Tashkent.

Interested scholars and researchers may contact the Organising Committee of
the conference in the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of
Science, Tashkent.

For further information, please contact:

Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Science, Tashkent
81, H. Abdullaev street
700170 Tashkent
Uzbekistan

Phones: (99871) 162-54-61, 162-42-56
Fax: (99871) 162-52-77
Web-site: http://www.beruni.fan.uz
E-mail: beruni@globalnet.uz


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