Grand Ayatollah Ja’far Subhani, in explaining the composing of Islamic Theology Encyclopedia said: in the beginning for the quest of compiling this encyclopedia we conducted some meetings, as writing an encyclopedia is different than that of a book. After different discussions and negotiations training of authors was started.

Grand Ayatollah Ja’far Subhani, in explaining the composing of Islamic Theology Encyclopedia said: in the beginning for the quest of compiling this encyclopedia we conducted some meetings, as writing an encyclopedia is different than that of a book.After different discussions and negotiations training of authors was started.

He added: the work is compiled with at most safety measures and some of the articles have been revised three to four times to come into such a firm shape.

Regarding the reason of compiling such a work he reiterated: Christians are working on their Theology from last 100 years and publish their work in large quantities which consist of doubts and questions that undermine the infrastructure.

The other reason he depicted: Second thing now most of Arabic academies are looking into the rational and theological discussions and mostly putting aside the dogmatic approach of Ancestor-ism (Salfigari).

Worth mentioning, Encyclopedia of Islamic Theology is the first ever specialized encyclopedia in Islamic Theological sciences which researches and explains the concepts and issues of Theology in analytical-descriptive way and cites several reliable sources on each topic.