| About the Project |
Online Resources |
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- Online Database (Forthcoming 2008)
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Objectives
The Muslim Civilisations Abstracts (MCA) database will provide information on selected works of scholarship containing one or more of the following:
- original research and analysis;
- advances in relevant methodology;
- creative contributions to the solution of intellectual and social problems affecting Muslims.
The abstracts, written by impartial expert scholars in the relevant subjects will be made available in multiple languages, including: Arabic, Bengali, English,
Malay/Indonesian, Persian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu. These are only some of the languages used by Muslims today and the Institute will expand the MCA to include other languages in due course.
The principal medium for this exchange of scholarship will be the Internet. The MCA will be made available as a free, open-access online database, which can be consulted by anyone using the Internet, in any of the languages mentioned above.
Versions in print and/or on CD-ROM may also be published for the benefit of institutions and scholars without ready access to the Internet. |
