The ''İslâm Ansiklopedisi'' (İA) () is a Turkish academic

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for

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published by ' ( eng, Turkish Religious Foundation). Its most recent 44-volume edition, called ''Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi'' (''TDV İA'' or ''DİA''), was completed between 1988 and 2013, with two supplementary volumes published in 2016. It contains 16,855 articles in total. Its content is available on its website for free.

Edition history

Initially, in 1939, the ''İA'' was proposed to be a translation of the first ''

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'' (EI1, 1913–1938) into the Turkish language because the EI1 had only been introduced in

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, French and

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. However, while preparing the İslâm Ansiklopedisi many articles of the EI1 were revised, expanded and corrected, and the work ultimately "had the dual purpose of amending Orientalist scholarship and elaborating on the Turkish contribution to Islamic tradition". The result was that the İslâm Ansiklopedisi became a work consisting of 15 volumes instead of the originally proposed five. Some articles of the ''İA'' have been in turn included into the second ''

'' (EI2, 1960–2007), and EI2 articles refer to many articles of the İA. From 1966 until 1987, the chief editor of İslâm Ansiklopedisi was the

Tahsin Yazıcı Tahsin Yazıcı () (1892 in Bitola, Monastir – February 11, 1971 in Ankara) was an Ottoman Army (1861–1922), Ottoman Army officer and later a Turkish Army general and politician. Biography He was born to his father Ali Bey and his mother ...

, a Turkish scholar of Persian literature, who personally contributed more than 150 articles to the work. The previous chief editor was Ahmed Ateş. Since 1988, a new ''İslâm Ansiklopedisi'' has been in preparation, the ''Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi'' (''DİA''), which is a completely original work. ''DİA'' was completed in 44 volumes in December 2013. Two additional (supplement) volumes are being prepared. The scientific quality of the encyclopedia is recognized by turkologists and Turkish-speaking scholars of Islamic studies.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)

De facto standard for Ottoman Turkish transliteration

The transliteration system of the ''İslâm Ansiklopedisi'' has become a de facto standard in

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for the transliteration of Ottoman Turkish texts. For

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the New Redhouse, Karl Steuerwald and Ferit Develioğlu dictionaries have become standard. Another transliteration system is that of the

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(DMG), which handles any Turkic language written in the Arabic script.Transkriptionskommission der DMG ''Die Transliteration der arabischen Schrift in ihrer Anwendung auf die Hauptliteratursprachen der islamischen Welt'', p. 9
/ref> There are few differences between the İA and the DMG transliteration systems.

First Edition volumes (İA)

Second Edition volumes (TDVİA)

References

External links

''İslâm Ansiklopedisi - Official Site''

Description on webpage of Religious Foundation of Turkey (publisher)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Islam Ansiklopedisi Encyclopedias of Islam Turkish-language encyclopedias 1988 non-fiction books