The ''Encyclopaedia Islamica'' is an encyclopedia on
Islamic and
Iranian studies
Iranian studies ( fa, ايرانشناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...
published by
Brill
Brill may refer to:
Places
* Brielle (sometimes "Den Briel"), a town in the western Netherlands
* Brill, Buckinghamshire, a village in England
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* Brill, Wisconsin, an un ...
, comprising a projected 16-volume translation of selected articles from the new Persian ''Dā'erat-ol-Ma'āref-e Bozorg-e Eslāmi'' ( fa, دائرةالمعارف بزرگ اسلامی, "''The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia''"), supplemented by additional articles written in English by scholars affiliated with the
Institute of Ismaili Studies
The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) is a research institute in London, United Kingdom. It aims to promote the study of Muslim cultures and societies, both historical and contemporary, in order to foster a greater understanding of their relatio ...
.
[Mousa al-Reza Wahdati]
Review of Encyclopaedia Islamica Volume 3
(Adab – al-Bāb al-Ḥādī ͑ashar) ed. by Farhad Daftary, Wilferd Madelung. Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies. Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 2015. pp. 107–109.[Suzanne M. Estelle-Holmer]
Review of Wilferd Madelung and Farhad Daftary, eds. Encyclopaedia Islamica
Vol. 1: ‘Aba’- Abu Hanifa. Theological Librarianship. An Online Journal of the American Theological Library Association. Volume 2, Number 2 • December 2009. pp. 103–104.
The Persian-language project has been led by
Kazem Mousavi-Bojnourdi
Seyyed Mohammad-Kazem Mousavi-Bojnourdi (born 1942 in Najaf, Iraq) is an Iranian historian, theologian and writer.
He was the curator of the National Library of Iran from 1997 to 2005 and founder of Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia
...
since 1983, when the
Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia was established in Teheran for the purpose of constituting a scientific committee to oversee its creation.
[Bauden, Frédéric]
Review of Encyclopaedia Islamica
volume 1 (A-Abū Ḥanīfa), éd. Farhad Daftary et Wilferd Madelung. Moyen Age (Le). CXIX(2), pp. 465–466 (In French). The project, which provides comprehensive coverage of Shia Islam has sparked considerable interest in the Islamic world and is being consulted by many Persian-speaking scholars of Islamic studies.
[ As of 2016, the encyclopedia is at the ninth letter of the Persian alphabet and its 22nd completed volume.
Brill's ''Encyclopaedia Islamica'', which is edited by ]Farhad Daftary
Farhad Daftary ( fa, فرهاد دفترى; born 1938 in Brussels) is a Belgian-born Iranian-British Islamic scholar who is co-director and head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. ...
and Wilferd Madelung
Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung FBA (b. December 26, 1930 in Stuttgart) is a German-British author and scholar of Islamic history.
Life
After World War II, the adolescent Wilferd accompanied his parents to the USA where his father Georg Hans Made ...
, is currently at its fifth volume.[ It was begun in 2008 and is expected to be completed in 2023.] It is intended for advanced graduate students and scholars who require meticulous documentation.[
]
See also
* Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia
* The Comprehensive History of Iran
The Comprehensive History of Iran ( fa, تاریخ جامع ایران, italic=yes) is a twenty-volume book series about various aspects of Iran, Iran's political, social and cultural history from pre-Islamic times to the extinction of the Qajar ...
* Iran Between Two Revolutions
''Iran Between Two Revolutions'' is a book by Ervand Abrahamian that was published in 1982 by Princeton University Press in New Jersey, United States. This book has been translated into Persian and published many times in Iran. The book has ele ...
* Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment
References
External links
Official Persian text of the first 24 volumes
official website
The official announcement at Brill Publication with a preview
Translation by The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Encyclopedias of Islam
Persian encyclopedias
English-language encyclopedias
Iranian online encyclopedias
Iranian books
21st-century encyclopedias
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