Encyclopaedia of Islamic Sciences launched in Cairo
Islamic Sciences Encyclopaedia laucned in Cairo
OnIslam, 16 February 2013
CAIRO – In an attempt to correct misconceptions about Islam and Muslims in the West, a new encyclopaedia on Islamic religious sciences has been launched in Egypt, meeting the needs of a large number of non-Arabic speaking Muslims around the world.
“The encyclopaedia, which holds the title “Introduction to study Islamic religious sciences” is presented in the English language in a very simple way,” Dr Ibrahim Negm, a senior advisor to Egypt’s Grand Mufti, told Egypt State Information Service on Saturday, February 16.
“It includes thirty disciplines of Islamic sciences as Qur’an, Islamic jurisprudence, theology, comparative religion and Islamic ethics studies, research methods in Islamic sciences and many other fields.”
Negm said the new encyclopaedia would also tackle a number of modern controversial issues such as Jihad, women in Islam and renewal of Islamic thought.
The launch crowns two years of extensive work under outgoing Mufti Ali Gomaa who established connections with biggest European and American universities.
A copy of this encyclopaedia would be uploaded on Dar al-Ifta media centre page on the Facebook.
Egyptian scholars hope the encyclopaedia would help correct misconceptions about Islam and Muslims in the West.
“The encyclopaedia will help the non-Arabic speaking Muslims to get acquainted with the Islamic sciences and serve as the defence line for the mediated Islamic thought,” Negm said.
“This encyclopaedia will stand against the fierce attacks on Islam that are based on misinterpretations and misunderstanding of Islamic Shari`ah.”
In Islam, Shari`ah govern issues in Muslims’ lives from daily prayers to fasting and from to inheritance and marital cases to financial disputes.
The Islamic rulings, however, do not apply on non-Muslims, even if in a dispute with non-Muslims.
Earlier in 2011, another educational encyclopaedia was launched in Saudi Arabia, compounding scholarly work on Islam, human rights and inter-religious affairs in modern ages.
Titled “An Educational Encyclopaedia of Islam”, the two-volume encyclopaedia includes scholarly work on Islamic cultures, religion, history and politics, the entries of the encyclopaedia are arranged alphabetically.
The encyclopaedia places particular emphasis on nineteenth and twentieth centuries, containing over a thousand articles in two volumes on Islam, Muslims and the Islamic culture in the Arab mainland, South and Southeast Asia and Europe.
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