A religious scholar from Tashkent study Koran in Mir-e-Arab medressa, the oldest and biggest religious school in Uzbekistan, near the Masjid Kalon of Bukhara. Bukhara is a very important place in the Muslim world. Here in Bukhara, one of Muslim scholars, Muhammad al-Bukhari (Imam Bukhari), authored one of the most the authoritative interpretations of the Holy Koran and Hadith in the 9th century.

Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 2007