TEHRAN -- Iranian scholar Shahriar Shojaeipur is writing a review of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Persian service of FNA announced on Tuesday.
It is being published in four volumes plus a supplement from 1913 to 1938 in English, German, and French editions by Brill in the western Dutch city of Leiden. The second edition of the encyclopedia was begun in 1954 and completed in 2005 and the third edition has started in 2007.
Shojaeipur’s review is mainly focused on the entries written on the Prophet Muhammad (AS) and his household.
“The sources of the encyclopedia are the books written by Western researchers and unfortunately the entries on Shia issues are either wrong or biased,” he told FNA.
The review is scheduled to be published in a book by the Islamic Research Institute for Culture and Thought in the near future and there is talk of an English version as well.
Shojaeipur said Prophet Muhammad (S) and his household have been ignored in the encyclopedia. Thus they will be the main focus of the book.
“I also try to correct the Western viewpoint of the characteristics of Imam Ali (AS), Imam Hassan (AS) and Imam Hussein (AS) in my book,” he added.
The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI) is an encyclopedia of the academic discipline of Islamic studies.
As to its geographical and historical scope, the work embraces the old Arabo-Islamic Empire, the Islamic states of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire, and the various Muslim states and communities in Africa and Europe.
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