(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A digital library containing works on Shiite Muslims in Chinese has been showcased at the 21st International Quran Exhibition in Tehran - Iran.
The digital library encompasses over 35,000 pages about Islam, the holy Quran, Shiism, Shia jurisprudence, the house of Prophet Mohammad, dictionaries, Persian books on Chinese learning and Chinese books on learning Persian.
Hujatoleslam Asgar Aghaei, best known as the Chinese Cleric, said the software entails a section about Iran and its tourist attractions, history, great leaders, poets, literature, Chinese rendition of Masnavi Manavi, Hafizs Divan, and Sadis Bustan and Golestan in Chinese.
As he said, the collection is accessible in Persian and Chinese for interested users and provides Iran's map in Chinese as well as the location of mosques in China.
He further asserted that the dictionaries provided in the collection are Persian to Chinese, Chinese to Persian, English to Chinese and Arabic to Chinese.
The Chinese Cleric went on to add that that the collection is the first of its kind in the world of Islam and won the first runners up prize at the Digital Media Festival in 2011.
The 21st International Quran Exhibition is being run at Tehran's Grand Imam Khomeini Prayer Ground and will wrap up on August 6.
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18 July 2013 - 07:35
News ID: 442023
A digital library containing works on Shiite Muslims in Chinese has been showcased at the 21st International Quran Exhibition in Tehran - Iran.
