Opening the site of the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Islam (ECI)
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Islam (ECI) is a non governmental and scientific organization which seeks to introduce the political and intellectual developments of the Islamic world over the last two centuries by providing facts and scholarly analysis. ECI’s Editor in Chief is S. Sadegh Kharrazi and its editorial board is comprised of scholars, intellectuals, diplomats and activists in the realm of politics and international affairs, particularly in the field of modern thought and new movements in the Islamic world.
ECI’s main objective is to address the need for an explanatory and comprehensive analysis by insiders for audiences outside the Islamic world.
ECI has adopted a novel approach to explaining the contemporary intellectual and political movements of Muslims. ECI is committed to provide analysis of events and ideas, and not merely descriptions.
Scientific, cultural and political developments in the West in the last two centuries have had a long-lasting and profound impact on human life. Such impacts on Islamic countries have been significant. Muslims, as one-fifth of the world’s population, have taken different approaches toward such developments. ECI explores how Muslims have responded to these changes and seeks to explain the conceptual and geographical differences with due consideration of innovative factors within each intellectual and political system.
ECI seeks to address the current shortcoming of knowledge about political and social developments in the Islamic world for readers outside Muslim communities. Such readers may include a broad spectrum of people interested in Islamic political developments, such as experts and researchers in Islamic studies, students and scholars in social and political fields, media, cultural and intellectual institutions as well as strategic and policy-making centers. ECI will be published as a four volume English encyclopedia with about 1,200 entries. For further information on the mission statement, structure, categorization and submitting papers please visit ECI site at www.ECI-IR.COM
ECI welcomes comments, views and new suggestions by researchers and scholars.