Acknowledgment of the receipt of Volume 9 of the Encyclopedia

Posted: December 30, 2005

GHULAM-‘ALI HADDAD ‘ADIL

Executive Director

Encyclopedia Islamica Foundation

Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

Attention:

Mr. Javad Karimi

Head

Department of Contemporary Islam

Subject: Acknowledgment of the receipt of Volume 9 of the Encyclopedia

Dear Director:

Salamun ‘alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

I do acknowledge with profound gratitude the receipt of Volume 9 of Encyclopedia of the World of Islam (in Persian) along with your letter (dated 8/10/84 with reference no. 62-1/809), which you kindly dispatched to the undersigned as a gesture of appreciation for two of my four contributed entry articles…

With best wishes,

MANSOOR L. LIMBA

Senior Researcher and Translator

Shajaratun Muntazirah Educational & Research Institute (SMERI)

P.O. Box 521

9600 Cotabato City

Philippines

Email: [email protected]

http://www.smeri.cjb.net

SMERI acquires a hundred new book titles

Posted: May 15, 2005

As the 18th  Tehran International Book Fair (May 4-14, 2005) formally ends on May 14, 2005, SMERI acquires over a hundred more book titles and software programs. Among these newly acquired titles are the complete publications of the London-based Islamic College for Advanced Studies (ICAS) at the top of which is The Qur'an with a phrase-by-phrase translation by Sayyid 'Ali Quli Qara'i, the veteran translator of Islamic classics based in Qum, Iran. Other titles are as follows:

Ibn Khaldun, N. J. Dawood, Bruce Lawrence & Franz Rosenthal. The Muqaddimah (An Introduction to History) (Abridged Edition).

Ibn Arabi, Michel Chodkiewicz & James W. Morris. The Meccan Revelations (Futuhat al-Makkiyyah. Volumes 1-2.
 

Martin Lings. Muhammad (His Life Based on the Earliest Sources).

Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Man and Nature (The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man).

Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Sufi Essays.
 

Ibn 'Ata 'Illah, Victor Danner & Wheeler M. Thackston. Book of Wisdom (Classics of Western Spirituality S.).

Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai & Mohammad H. Faghfoory. Kernel of the Kernel (Concerning the Wayfaring and Spiritual Journey of the People of Intellect - a Shii Approach to Sufism).

Frances Cairncross. The Death of Distance 2.0 (How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives).

Steven Lukes. Power (A Radical View, Second Edition).

Brian Loader, Nicholas Pleace, Douglas Schuler & David J. Bell.
Cyberculture (The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)).
 

Gagandeep Grewal. Handbook Of Library Security.
 

SMERI acquires 5 library database programs

Posted: April 27, 2005

On April 24, 2005, SMERI acquires five (5) powerful database programs  designed to catalog and manage various library items such as books, periodicals (magazines, journals, newsmagazines, newsletters, and newspapers), audio-video items, software programs, and stamps. These library programs are: BookCAT, CATraxx, CATVids, SoftCAT Plus, and StampCAT. For more information on the salient features of each of the programs, visit: www.fnprg.com.