The Qualitative Evaluation of the Thesaurus of Islamic Theology of the Research Center for Islamic Documents and Information Management; Content Evaluation

The current article seeks to criticize and examine the valuable work "The Thesaurus of Islamic Theology", which was published for the first time in the history of the world, by observing the universal standards of thesauruses, and with the effort of Islamic Seminary and Academic scholars in Islamic Propagation Office of Qom Seminary. The author carries out this study to empower this valuable thesaurus and fix its shortcomings in the second edition as well as to enrich these types of studies in Islamic Republic of Iran, with the belief in the poor quality of research papers in the field of the Persian thesauruses evaluation. This critique and examination is a qualitative one that focuses on content based on theology and thesaurus compilation features.  Hence, it concerns the structural empowerment of the thesaurus, the validity of its semantic relations and rules of its form. The method of this study is library research and based on description and analysis. Finally, recognizing the uniqueness of this work and its scientific and formative strength, this study points out some of the shortcomings in the form, structure and conceptual relations of the work and while providing the proposed new structure, offers solutions for the empowerment of semantic relationships and the rules of its form.  It is hoped to consider these points in the next edition and also criticize and examine the thesauruses more seriously.