Towards Construction of Electronic Dictionaries for Asian and African Languages(Coordinator: Machida Kazuhiko)The main aim of this project is to construct electronic dictionaries for Asian and Africanlanguages, open to researchers and students both in Japan and abroad. Since the year 1978 when amain frame computer system was introduced to accumulate databases of Asian and African languages,the Institute has endeavored to store information resources consisting mainly of linguistic corpora aswell as to develop softwares for data processing. Along with construction of electronic dictionaries,this project aims at meeting the requirements, under the new network environments such as world-wide web, to inherit and enrich the information resources stored so far.Studies on the Historical Iran World(Coordinator: Yajima Hikoichi)The objective of this project is to clarify, from a historical perspective, what Iranian elements arethere within the framework of greater Iran. We try to place in clear relief the Iranian elements in theirtotality by localizing Iran, historical as well as contemporary, afresh in the Islam world and the others(Arab, Turkish, Kurdish, Indian, etc.). We intend, as a result, not only to specify the Iranian elementsbut also to propose a new direction of the Islamic studies. During the first year of the project we startlocating the basic problems through those case studies to be presented by the participants. State and Religion in Post-Independence African Countries(Coordinator: Ogawa Ryo)The aim of this project is (a) to describe and analyze the relationship, in the contemporary Africancountries, among the state organization and religion and to see how these institutions cooperate togovern the people or, on the contrary, contend with each other, and (b) to try to have a futureperspective of each country.The actual situation of the state and religion in Africa will be examined by the following tentativethemes: What roles did traditional religions, Islamic religion and Christianity play in Africancountries? What roles did they play for the national union after the independence of each country?Does existence of two different religions in one country, viz., Islam and Christianity constitute anyimpeding factor for the national union? If so, how? What are the functions people hope for thereligions to play in each country at this moment of general democratization in Africa? Historical Development in the Islamic World: A Case Study of the Ottoman Empire (Coordinator: Kuroki Hidemitsu) This project aims to clarify the process of development of the international relations in the Islamicworld, focusing on the case of the Ottoman Empire. The Empire had occupied the core-area of theIslamic world for as long as six hundred years and thus contained rich documented information aboutits international relations. We analyze the reality of the Ottoman relations with the states in Europe,Russia, Central Asia, Iran, India, and inland Africa. The international relations here include the socialand cultural interactions between those countries as well as the formal diplomatic relationships. Wealso discuss various subjects such as the relation between international treaties and Islamic laws, thereality of war and security, the composition of diplomats, the roles of interpreters, the influences of11
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