--The 33-volume Quran Index will be translated into Urdu, director of Quranic encyclopedias department at the Center for Quranic Culture and Teachings told IQNA.

Hojat-ol-Islam Isa Isazadeh said that compiling the great Quranic encyclopedia has just finished after 8 years of efforts by the center’s researchers and scholars.

“Some 150 scholars and Quranic experts worked in the Quranic project,” he stated.

“It is now going to be translated into Urdu language”, he added. “An agreement was also signed earlier this week with the Islamic College of London to translate the work into English.”

According to Mr. Isazadeh, translation of the Quran Index into Arabic began two years ago and now four volumes of the Arabic version are ready for publication.

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