The chief editor of this series of Encyclopedia is Sayyed Kazem Mousavi Bojnourdi and the publisher is The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) which is a major research institute based in Tehran. Established in 1983, it is charged with the task of researching and publishing general and topical encyclopedias about Iranian and Islamic culture.
According to the IBNA correspondent, the 21st volume of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia covers the entries whose first letters begin with H and Kh ( ح and خ in Persian alphabet). The encyclopedia is being published in three languages of Persian, Arabic and English, but as Mousavi Bojnourdi who is also the head of CGIE says, the encyclopedic project will be followed up to volumes 35 or 40.
The Great Islamic Encyclopedia covers various subjects such as different origins of the Islamic culture and civilization, Quran studies, Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), hadith (Islamic tradition), political and social history, historical and anthropological geography, Islam and the Islamic sects as well as the native and local characteristics of the Muslim nations.
The 21st volume of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia begins with an article on sultan Hosayn Baaiqara, one of the most renowned Timurid Kings who was a successful politician, poet known as the patron of science and culture during his reign.
The significant Articles with the first letters of Kh include Khatoun Abadi, Khadem Sheikh Roslan, Khadem Hasan Pasha, Khaled Naqshbandi, Khamenei, Khaqani Shervani, etc.
The key article of this part, “Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei” written by Ali Akbar Velayati reads: “Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei was born in a clergy family in the city of Mashhad. His ancestor was Sayyed Hossein Khamenei who studied under prominent religious scholars such as Fazel Iravani and Mirza Mohammad Hassan Shirazi in Najaf, and his genealogy goes to the family of the fourth Shiite Imam, Sajjad (AS).
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Source: IBNA