The University of Moscow’s Center for Partnership of Civilizations plans to hold the second international conference on “Russia and the Islamic World”.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Partnership of Civilizations and Iran’s Cultural Center in Moscow, the international scholarly event is slated to be held in October with the participation of 150 scholars and thinkers from around the world.

The first conference on “Russia and the Islamic World” was also held in Moscow on June 23-24, 2008.

Among the main topics at last year’s conference, which was attended by religious scholars, theologians, politicians and NGO members, were religious tolerance, globalization, and the relationship of Russia with Muslim states.