چکیده:
الموسوعة هى مرجع يحوى خلاصة المعارف في فرع أو فروع عذّة نُظّمت بشكل
موضوعى أو بواسطة حروف الالفباء مما يمهّد الطريق لوصول عموم الناس بسهولة
إلى العلوم المختلفة. وقد تصدّى المستشرقون- إضافة لمجالات المعلومات العامة-
لتدوين الموسوعات في مجالي علوم القرآن ومعارف القرآن.
تتناول المقالة- بعد بيان الاستشراق والتحقيق القرآني- أهمية كتابة موسوعات
القرآن في الغرب والاسلام مجالات موسوعة قرآن لا يدن وأهدافهاء ومعرفة رئيس
لجنة التنقيح فيها: جيمي دمن مك اوليف. وفي المجموع يمكن القول ان موسوعة قرآن
لا يدن- بالمقارنة مع الأفكار المنتحرفة للقرون الوسطى للغربيين بالنسبة إلى الاسلام-
تعد خطوة متقدمة في معرفة حقائق الإسلام علىالرغم من نقصها وعدم نضجها.
An encyclopedia is considered a reference that includes the
summary of human knowledge in a discipline or more; it is organized
on the basis of subjects or alphabetically which facilitates it for the
common public to attain various sciences easily and smoothly.
On that basis, the authors sought writing in the encyclopedias
restricted for the Holy Quran, and those encyclopedias started in their
complementary course of dictionaries and lexicons to attain the
formation of collections of essays on Quranic topics up to subjective
encyclopedias, then they became alphabetically arranged the way they
are in the Holy Quran and its disciplines.
In Europe, the interest in encyclopedias started since the sixteenth
century with the writings by Francis Bacon or the Great Chronicled
Turoyo Dictionary or the alphabetical encyclopedia by Gamber in
English. Such general encyclopedias have paved the way to establish
specialized ones, and Islamic studies had their share of those
encylopedias. With the start of the 20th century and with the
expansion of the scientific investigative activities of the orientalists
under title Islamic Investigations, Islam's encyclopedia was printed
and published by Brill Publishing House in various languages (French,
German, English, Turkish, and Urdu…..) However, the Quran
Encyclopedia – printed by Brill represents a collective work by the
orientalists and the scholars all over the world. The encyclopedia was
printed and published in 2006 in six volumes and 1000 entries. The
preface for this encyclopedia was written by outstanding orientalists
from solemn international universities; Jane Dammen McAuliffe, the
Dean of the College of Social Sciences at George Town University,
assumed the responsibility of editing the encyclopedia of the Quran.
Despite the fact that there are some suspicions which necessitate
answers about them in this encyclopedia, we can say that this
encyclopedia is one of the newest steps in the field of Quranic studies,
and it is considered the first reference of its kind in the Western
languages about the Holy Quran.