In 2018 and 2019, the Naqshbandiya international tourism festivals were organized in Bukhara with the participation of more than 400 religious figures and followers of the Naqshbandiya Sufi Tariqa from Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey, Great Britain, Australia, USA, South Africa and others.

The World Sufi Center is a non-governmental organization headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. Naqshbandiya is a Sufi brotherhood, which was named after its founder Bahauddin Naqshband (1318-1389), a native of Bukhara and an outstanding religious figure.

The main purpose of this festival is to recognize the merits of the great scientists of Uzbekistan in the development of Islam and world civilization, as well as visiting holy places, performing religious rites and getting acquainted with the main attractions of ziyerat tourism in the republic, the news agency "Dunyo" reports.

Currently, the Malaysian center, together with the travel company of Uzbekistan "Farhan Travel", has developed travel packages that are sold in the tourist market of Malaysia and other countries.

More than 200 muftis, imams and followers of the Naqshbandi Sufi Tariqa from all over the world, in particular from Malaysia, Indonesia, France, Turkey, Switzerland, Portugal, Australia, Russia and other countries are expected to participate in this event.

Within the framework of the festival, pilgrimage tours to the shrines of the cities of Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent are planned. Among them are the memorial complexes of Bahouddin Naqshband, the route "seven Holy feasts of Bukhara", the Miri Arab madrasah and the Kalyan Mosque in Bukhara, the memorial complexes of Imam Bukhari, Imam Maturidi, architectural masterpieces of the Temurid era in Samarkand, the Hazrati Imam and Suzuk–ota complexes, as well as the Center of Islamic Civilization under construction in Tashkent.

Religious figures will get acquainted with the Koran of Usman, which is the most ancient of the handwritten versions of the holy Scripture, stored in Tashkent.