I am trying to compile a list of currently active encyclopaedia projects in or about the Muslim world, in all languages. I am concerned only with those of a general nature, or relating to Islam/Muslims in general or particular Muslim countries (i.e. not those dealing with particular subjects or disciplines); and only with multi-volume works (min. 3 vols.) or digital projects on a similar scale. They must also be current, i.e. in course of publication or not yet published.
My very provisional list is given below. I should be most grateful for information about any which I have missed, and for corrections to the information given.
Geoffrey Roper
Bibliographical Adviser
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU)
London
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition (Leiden, 2005- ) English
Urdu Da'irah-i Ma‘arif-i Islamiyah (Lahore, 1959- ). [Translated/adapted from Encyclopaedia of Islam] Urdu
Da'irat al-Ma‘arif-i Buzurg-i Islami = The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia (Tehran, 1989- ) Persian
Arabic edition: Da'irat al-Ma‘arif al-Islamiyah al-Kubrá (Tehran 1991- )
English version is being edited at the Institute of Ismaili Studies.
Türkiye Diyanet Vakfi Islâm Ansiklopedisi (Istanbul 1988- ) Turkish
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures (6 vols., Leiden, 2003- ) English
Onomasticon Arabicum, coordinated at the Institut de Recherches et Histoire des Textes in Paris.
Base de données prosopographique contenant quelque 28 000 notices biographiques de personnalités du monde islamique médiéval (en cours d’édition, cédérom à paraître). French
Mawsu‘at a‘lam al-‘ulama' wa-al-udaba' al-‘Arab wa-al-Muslimin (Beirut & Tunis, 2004- , 4 vols. to letter tha') Arabic
L'Encyclopédie Berbère (Aix-en-Provence, 1984- ). French
Türk Ansiklopedisi (Ankara, 1946- ). Turkish
Tatarskaya entsiklopediya / red. M.Kh. Khasanov (Kazan 2002- , 5 vols.). Russian
Encyclopaedia Iranica (ed. Ehsan Yarshater, London, 1982- ). English
Banglapedia: national encyclopedia of Bangladesh / ed. Sirajul Islam & Sajahan Mia. (Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2003- , 10 vols. to date.) English
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