A Critical Examination of the Geometric Structure of the Thesaurus of Islamic Philosophy with Emphasis on the Main Category

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. Assistant Professor of Islamic Information and Documents Center, Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy, Qom, Iran.

Abstract

The present article is a critical approach to the book Thesaurus of Islamic Philosophy, which was compiled in accordance with the standards of thesaurus writing in the Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy affiliated to Islamic Propagation Office of Qom Seminary. Considering the lack of articles in the field of criticism and evaluation of Persian thesauruses, this action is carried out in order to strengthen this field with the priority of the thesaurus of Islamic philosophy and fix its problems in the second edition, and consider the necessity of updating and enriching such studies. This criticism and examination is of a qualitative evaluation type that focuses on the content area, focusing on the geometric structure with an emphasis on its main category based on Islamic philosophy and the characteristics of compiling thesauruses. The research method in this study is library and based on description and analysis and finally, by acknowledging the uniqueness of this work and its strong content and form, he introduces problems to the geometric structure of the main category and its conceptual connections and proposes a new structure in this regard so that it might be taken into consideration in the next edition and its significant problems will be fixed and the scientific authority of this academy lasts.

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