Islam is a natural and universal religion, which originated with the very creation of mankind and the world. The story of Islam begins with Prophet Adam (PBUH) and is in continuation to culminate on the doom’s day only.

Islam as a faith and philosophy has always been in focus. This work begins with Prophet Adam (PBUH) and journeys through the ages, describing about the early Prophets to Prophet, Muhammad (PBUH), who is the last Prophet to come to this world.

Present series, unique in its presentation, is a pioneering attempt to take all the Greatest Men of Islam in its fold and deals with the early Prophets in its first volume, while, eight volumes are devoted to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), his life, family, teachings, message and the impact. The rest of the volumes are on the esteemed companions of the Holy Prophet, including the four pious caliphs, who were all standard bearers of Islam in early years.

Based on original (Holy Quran and Traditions) and other authentic sources, this other authentic sources, this multivolume work is a valuable gift for all those who are desirous to know about the Prophets, and other great personalities of Islam. This authentic, comprehensive and exhaustive work would serve as a reference to scholars and source of knowledge for one and all.

The Muslim school embraces all branches of human knowledge and research—theology, medicine, history, astronomy, grammar, economics, physics, racial philosophy and racial psychology and ethics. It is an important educator on all systems of purely human origin, and its creed adores, worships and acknowledges the Creator of the Universe, in the most sublime and loftiest expression, never to be found in the liturgy of other religions. The Islamic conception of God is that He is ‘Allah’ and there is no deity beside Him; He along is to be worshipped. He begets not and He is not begotten. He was before time began its race. He is ‘Allah’ Who hath raised different prophets of men throughout the ages. His greatness is immeasurable. Allah is He That abide from eternity to eternity. This but a fractional part of the Muslim Creed—a creed which strictly, forbids the worship of images and the artistic representation of anything that resembles the human form. Yet in Christian literature, periodicals and other publications Muslims have been alluded to, and spoken of, as pagans, idolaters, polygamists, sun worshippers and what not. Muslims, the ardent followers of Islam have made great strides the world over and made remarkable success in bringing many countries under their hegemony from Europe to Asia, and Africa.

This work, encyclopaedic in nature, is designed to cover all major Muslim nation-states depicting their overall socio-cultural, geographical, economic, political and educational developments in modern perspective. Thus each country is treated competently and exhaustively. The information is supported by authentic facts and figures. This work will prove a reliable reference tool to academics, social scientists and general readers alike.

Efforts are made to furnish up-to-date data and latest developments pertaining to the country concerned. As seen the information is borrowed from various authoritative sources. We are deeply beholden to all those men of letters whose works are consulted or substantially made use of. We are thankful to our friends and well-wishers who have helped us while working on this project.

Research in Philosophy is the seventh publication in which a classified list of the titles on which the Indian Universities and other Institutions of Higher-Learning and Research have awarded Ph.D and D.Litt. degrees from 1900 to the end of 1997. It is the first publication in the field of “Humanities”. Like previous publications in main aim are to present a classified list of the topics in Philosophy on which research works have already been carried out. The basic purpose of the work is to place before the Scholars who intend to carry out research work in philosophy whether any work has already been done on the topic selected by him/ her.

It is hoped that this work will help the scholars of Philosophy in India and abroad.

Basically philosophy is defined as the academic discipline concerned with making explicit the nature and significance of ordinary and scientific beliefs and investigating the intelligibility of concepts by means of rational argument concerning their presuppositions, implication, and interrelationships; in particular the rational investigation of the nature and structure of reality (metaphysics), the resources and limits of knowledge (epistemology), the principles and import of moral judgement (ethics) and the relationship between language and reality (semantics).

This encyclopaedic work encompasses within its fold all important terms, concepts and theories and philosophers, described n clear and lucid language with authenticity and arranged in alphabetic order. Hopefully, the compact and exact interpretation, presented herein, will benefit all the concerned. And a veritable mine of information this will prove an authoritative reference tool.