موسوعة الاستغراب

The College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Qatar University celebrates the publication of the firstfour volumes of “The Encyclopedia of Occidentalism”, a project that was achieved through the joint collaboration of the ISESCO Chair in the Alliance of Civilizations, the Qatari Committee for the Alliance of Civilizations (QCAC), the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW), and Qatar University Press. The published parts comprise the first section of the encyclopedia which presents a conceptual study of the method of analysis and the basic terminology. This section deals with key topics that are handled in a scientific, realistic and comprehensive manner, that averts the existing estrangement between various disciplines of knowledge, and provides deep and solid methods of acculturation and dialogue with the civilized ‘other’. “The Encyclopedia of Occidentalism” is the first of its kind and the largest intellectual encyclopedia in the Muslim world that focuses on the study of the West. Eighty- seven researchers from Arab, Muslim and Western countries in four continents collaborated in writing the entries of the first section only. The encyclopedia offers a wider horizon for comprehensive and specific interdisciplinary studies in which the course of civilized dialogue is reinforced through sharing appropriate objective conditions to make it happen for civilized communication. Deconstructing Western knowledge and reinterpreting it is carried out according to objective facts, appropriate strict methods, and is presented without dazzling fascination or submissive dissension. This approach surpasses Eurocentricism and follows a more constructive dialogic line that sustains civilization for the benefit of all humanity.