The 25th Volume of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia is published

1/19/2025 09:45

The 25th volume of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia was printed and published under the supervision of Kāẓim Mūsavī Bojnurdī, CEO of the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (Center for Iranian and Islamic Studies). It contains articles and entries on Iranian and Muslim figures and topics related to Iran and Islam.

CGIE: The 25th volume of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia was printed and published under the supervision of Kāẓim Mūsavī Bojnurdī, CEO of the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (Center for Iranian and Islamic Studies). It contains articles and entries on Iranian and Muslim figures and topics related to Iran and Islam. 

The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) is an Iranian scientific research institute which was founded in March 1984; it is dedicated to the compilation and publication of general and subject encyclopedias and reference sources on different aspects of human knowledge and the Islamic and Iranian culture and civilization in particular.

The Great Islamic Encyclopedia has been compiled with the aim of fulfilling the scientific requirements of the Islamic societies and to achieve this goal, its contributors at the CGIE rely on scientific methods of research and base their work on the most reliable sources. As the title of this encyclopedia suggests, it only includes subjects which are particularly related to the culture and civilization of the Islamic world; it is indeed an exhaustive resource as it encompasses a wide range of subjects, from Qurʾānic sciences, Uṣūl al-ʿAqāyid , Kalām , Fiqh  , Uṣūl al- Fiqh , Hadith , Dirayah , Rijal , Akhlāq , ʾAdyān , Milal wa Nihal  and Mantiq  to philosophy, mysticism, literature, art, anthropology, Islamic architecture and works, history, geography, mathematics, astronomy and medicine. 

The 25th volume of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia includes 209 entries, beginning with ‘Risalat al-Ṭayr’ and ending with ‘Rahī Moʿayyerī’. 

Title of publication: The Great Islamic Encyclopedia, volume 25

Binding: hardcover

Page numbers: 788 pages

Size: Quarto

Quantity: 2000 copies

Price: 9,500,000 Rials

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