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Tuesday, 06 August 2002
TAJIKISTAN TO VET ISLAMIC CLERICS
By empty (8/6/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A commission comprising members of the governmental Council on Religious Affairs and the Council of Islamic Scholars has embarked on its annual assessment of the professional knowledge of Islamic clerics and teachers at Islamic schools and universities. This year for the first time clerics' familiarity with Tajikistan's laws relating to religious practice will also be tested. The commission is to focus this year on clerics in Sughd Oblast in northern Tajikistan.
A commission comprising members of the governmental Council on Religious Affairs and the Council of Islamic Scholars has embarked on its annual assessment of the professional knowledge of Islamic clerics and teachers at Islamic schools and universities. This year for the first time clerics' familiarity with Tajikistan's laws relating to religious practice will also be tested. The commission is to focus this year on clerics in Sughd Oblast in northern Tajikistan. Visiting Sughd last month, President Imomali Rakhmonov criticized the construction of unsanctioned mosques and the activity in the region of militant Islamic groups. (Asia Plus-Blitz)