By TCN News
Aligarh: Professor Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Dept of English and Director, UGC Academic Staff College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh has been invited by Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture, Istanbul, Turkey to participate in the meeting of the OIC Ministers and prominent scholars of the Islamic world on September 5, 2010.
The meeting has been convened in the light of the OIC resolution that the year 2010-2011 be declared as the year for the commemoration of the fourteen centuries of the revelation of the Holy Quran. The meeting in Istanbul will serve as a platform for reflection, consultation and formulation of proposals for commemorating this anniversary.
Professor Kidwai has been published extensively in the field of English translations of the Holy Quran. He was commissioned by the King Fahd Quran Centre, Saudi Arabia for compiling a Critical Bibliography of the English translations of Quran from 1649 to 2002 published in 2007. His several other books on the teachings of the Quran have been published from Leicester, UK and Mumbai.
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an international organisation of 57 member states comprising of Muslim countries.
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http://www.oic-oci.org/