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The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held a virtual lecture entitled Muslim-Christian Interaction and its Influence on the Russian Culture as part of its cultural and intellectual season. Russian academic Sergey Vorobiev delivered the lecture on Sunday, September 20, 2020.
Dr. Vorobiev talked about the history of Islam in the Russian Federation, noting that Islam spread in Russia from two historical centers, the North Caucasus in Dagestan, which saw the arrival of Arab Muslims for the first time in 642 CE and then Derbent “Bab al-Abwab”, the old city known in world history, appeared.
The Russian academic researcher indicated that Derbent was one of the outposts of the Umayyad Caliphate in its far north.—PR
