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How knowledge and media can challenge misconceptions about Islam

Organised by the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan, the forum gathered nearly 300 participants from around 50 countries. Discussions ranged from responsibility for misrepresentations of Islam and journalistic independence to Europe’s closer engagement with Central Asia.

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00:42international media forum islamic civilization a new perspective new discoveries organized by the center of islamic civilization in tuscan brought
00:51media professionals researchers and
00:54technology specialist to uzbekistan the forum explored new ways of presenting history to today's audiences
01:01the wider idea behind the forum echoed president shavgat mir ziyoyev's 2017 u.n address when he rejected attempts to
01:10link islam with violence and called for enlightenment and religious tolerance
01:14one of the forum's central themes was that knowledge has long traveled between cultures
01:19we believe that we invented everything but it's not true all the knowledge passed from the i call it the
01:26silk road of knowledge
01:27it passed from ancient china to in the middle of the middle east and then we go to the renaissance
01:32world
01:33doctor today sites medieval engineers almurandi and al jazari as part of this wider history of scientific exchange
01:42but this was only part of the story spanish envoy ruy gonzalez teclavijo traveled to samarkand in the early 15th
01:51century to meet amir timour
01:52charlotte kramer presented a new publishing project based on his account we already see a very strong connection from europe
02:00to central asia and especially to the actual region of uzbekistan because of the trade road of the silk road
02:07and also because of diplomatic dialogue
02:09the project gives that century's old account a new form for today's audiences
02:16what stood out at the forum was how the same piece of history could take very different forms
02:22an ancient manuscript could study with ai reproduced in a book brought into a digital exhibition or retold on screen
02:31all starting from the same historical source
02:35ai could help researchers work with all manuscripts more quickly
02:39but new technology did not remove the need to verify information
02:43is úgy gondolom hogy úgy tudjuk a legjobban közelebb hozni az embereket a kultúrához illetve a történelemhez
02:52hogyha megfogunk egy modern dolgot és megfogunk egy régi egy tradicionális történetet
02:59és azt a kettőt ezt vegyítjük és ezt szerintem
03:01but the debate was not only about format it was also about how history itself is understood
03:08behind many of the projects presented at the forum was a broader aim to challenge stereotypes about islam
03:15by looking back at its scientific and cultural history
03:18the approach was not to ignore today's realities but to bring a much wider part of that history into the
03:24picture
03:39but some speakers argued that the problem was not only about perceptions in the west
03:45islam kasıtlı veya kasıtsız yanlış anlaşılıyor ve yanlış tanıtılıyor
03:51müslümanlar da dahil buna yani avrupalıları veya modern dünyayı suçlamak yetmiyor
03:58the discussion also turned to how international media report on uzbekistan
04:04is
04:17being on the ground is one part of the job
04:21what journalists do with what they find is another
04:25journalists should be here on the ground journalists should report about the reality
04:30we are there to empower our audiences to build up an own opinion
04:36what they want to think and should think about this region
04:39we are not here to teach them we are here to inform them
04:42across the forum one idea kept returning
04:45new tools can bring history closer to today's audiences
04:48but whatever the format facts context and critical judgment still matter
04:54you
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