Iran: Bibliography of Quranic studies in European languages ready to release

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Hujatoleslam Mohammad Naghdi stated that the book is compiled by Morteza Kariminia in introduction and assessment of the published books in European languages since 1500 on Quranic topics like Quranic sciences, translations, pronunciations and calligraphy. As he said, the book encompasses almost 9,000 entries of Quranic books in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Netherlands and Latin. Quranic terms, study of verses, study of chapters, Quranic titles and concepts, world Quran researchers, the holy Quran and modern day challenges, topical research studies on the holy Quran, assessments and examination of Quranic works by orientologists are the theme of the articles covered by the book, he went on to add. Items like the title of the publications, bibliographical information, the name of their authors, translators and editors, publishers’ titles, the place and date of publication and the number of pages are included in each entry of the book. Moreover, the bibliographical information about all the books and articles released in any Islamic languages like Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Malayan and Malaysian are added to the appendix of the volume. The book has taken 5 years of consecutive library research in the world’s most prominent libraries like national libraries of France, Italy, Australia, Spain, Iran and many other libraries in the world. The work is arranged in 800 pages and addresses Quranic researchers and PhD candidates.End item/ 149