Tunisian Religious Minister Laroussi Mizouri opened the event at the National Library Building conference hall in Tunis, a press release of the Indonesian embassy in Tunis received by ANTARA`s London correspondent said on Monday.
Mizouri underlined the importance of the first international religious competition since the Tunisian Revolution early this year, and an important stage in the political life in Tunisia.
He said the international event is a re-translation of Tunisia`s cultural characteristics contributing the great Islamic values in the world`s civilization manifested in the history of Kairaouan and Ez-Zaitunah.
In the Koran recitation followed by 30 participants from 21 Muslim majority countries plus Rusia and Greece, the Indonesian representative is the only participant from Asia from the Middle East.
The two categories competed in the event is memorizing the Korean and reading it including its pronunciation.(*)
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