To raise the level of sober scientific documentation in the Arab world

Issuance of the first documentation guide in the humanities in the country

The university is working to provide the guide in a digital version.

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The Mohammed bin Zayed University for the Humanities has issued an integrated standard scientific guide for documenting research in the humanities in Arabic, the first of its kind in the country specialized in the humanities.

The university has worked for a long time to complete this project, which is a real addition to the process of comprehensive scientific documentation, and a qualitative leap in the university's academic efforts.

The guide, which the university is working to provide in a digital version, aims to raise the level of sober scientific documentation, advance the scientific research process in the fields of humanities in Arabic, and standardize the documentation of scientific research.

The university’s director, Dr. Khaled Al Yabhouni Al Dhaheri, said: “We saw the development of this guide to be a standard guide and a reference in documentation to bridge the gap in this vital aspect, and researchers in human studies depend on it, given the absence of the curriculum and the abundance of evidence in force in many Arab universities. Errors, clarity of contradiction and inconsistency.

Al Dhaheri pointed out that the guide uses the documentation method in the footnotes and the list of references, which is the preferred method for most workers in the fields of human studies, for its ability to accommodate various types of sources and references of various forms, and it is also the method that is still in use in Arab human studies for decades. Time, accredited by a number of the most important international universities such as Oxford and Chicago.

He added: “Documentation within the text in this approach is limited to Qur’anic verses, but everything else is documented in the footnotes.

The guide adopts the name and title due to the prevalence of this method across the world, and the ease of listing the works of one author in the list of references if there are many when mentioning each of his works.

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