BİLGİSAYAR ORTAMINDAKİ İSLÂMÎ İLİMLER KONULU ARAPÇA PROGRAM VE CD’LER ÜZERİNE

ON ARABIC CD’S CONTAINING ELECTRONIC TEXTS REGARDING THE ISLAMIC SCIENCES

Today there are a good many Cd’s produced by different companies/institutions and individuals which contain electronic versions of printed Islamic books. Despite this fact, there are no articles which evaluate these products concerning the Islamic sciences from a general view. This paper aimes to give the user a glance to the major products on this field and their possibilities of scholarly use. This article consists of an introduction and two parts: The historicâl development of the issue, enabling Arabic on Windows and advantages/disadvantages of electronic texts are issued in the introduction. The first part consists of the introduction of the producing companies/institutions, their major products and their basic features. The second part deals with various problems and defects/lacks which result from the software itself, the user or the used operating system.