Islamic Encylopaedia on Compact Disk

Article author: FUNCI

Date of publication of the article: 20110624

Year of publication: 2011

TRIPOLI (IINA): An electronic Compact Disk (CD) dictionary with 55,000 entries on Islamic culture in seven languages has been published in Libya. It is the largest dictionary of its kind on CD, and it is expected that researchers and others interested in Islam and Islamic culture would find it very useful.

Apart from the Islamic terms, the dictionary gives an explanation of each of the important terms, accompanied by pictures in motion and speeches. The seven languages used in the dictionary are English, French, Malaysian (Bahasa Malay), Turkish, German, Indonesian, in addition to Arabic.