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Zayed House for Islamic Culture (ZHIC) has distributed more than 48,000 publications in 13 languages to interested persons, public and private entities, cultural institutions and UAE embassies abroad.
The distribution aims to enrich the content of the Islamic culture and enhance the status of the Arabic language in the UAE community, said a ZHIC press release on Monday.
Based on the moral value systems called for by Islam and national identity for coexistence and community integration, ZHIC published educational curricula and informative distributary books in various fields. Along with specialised publications to establish pedagogical and humanitarian values in youth and enhance the status of Arabic language and culture.
In this regard, Dr Khalifa J al Mottawa, Head of ZHIC Library, Publication and Translation, noted that ZHIC’s 183 publications were aimed at various readers interested in Islamic culture, upright rules, teachings and values of Islam.
Thus, he added, ZHIC adds more publications every year in major world languages translations contributive to ZHIC’s vision to be a leading entity with regard to introducing the Islamic culture.
In further details, Dr al Mottawa clarified that ZHIC prepares and publishes articles on Islamic culture on its website in different languages to cater for its clients through e learning. The 116 articles published in 2019, came in English, Tagalog, Ethiopian, Mandarin, Russian and Urdu.
ZHIC takes part annually in local and international book fairs to exchange expertise and spread the values of tolerance and coexistence adopted by the UAE, he said. For instance, last year ZHIC participated in a number of cultural forums including Frankfurt, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah International Book Fairs and World Council for Muslim Communities conference through stands displaying ZHIC cultural publications with the Islamic values contained therein to introduce its role as a leading entity introducing Islamic culture in various languages.
Also, ZHIC library includes the translations of the meanings of the Qur’an, Islamic culture references, children books on humanitarian and moral themes, and books on Arabic for speakers of other languages to accentuate the significance of Arabic as per the UAE vision to not only preserve it but also introduce it to others.