ISESCO attaches great importance to cultural and social issues with which it deals from an Islamic perspective. Thanks to its web site on the Internet, ISESCO presents an Islamic data base which allows all those who consult it to gradually come to a clearer and sounder understanding of the true and concluding religion. By so doing, the Organization contributes to the rectification of errors and the removal of confusion which have accompanied the perception of Islam, and by the same token, enhance a representation that befits the standing of the Islamic culture, the patterns of which are deeply impressed on the minds of more than a billion Muslims.

In this respect, we are pleased to present this book, The Languages of the Prophets and the Sources of the Divine Messages, which comes in five chapters, dealing respectively with : “Revelation in the life of humankind”; “The Language of Moses and Aaron (PBUT)" ; “The Language of Isa Ibn Maryam (PBUH)"; “Mohammad (PBUH) and the Concluding Message”; “An overview of the First Manuscripts of the Qur’an and of Modern Editions”.

Contemporary thinkers are no doubt aware of the great importance of these issues. Research into the sources of the Revealed messages and their authentication is the right of each and all because the documents, which constitute the sources of the Messages that were revealed to the Prophets, do indeed matter to all the peoples of the earth. By implication, the preservation of such sources is the duty of humankind, as the loss of these sources would certainly obfuscate the outlines of religion and thereby lead to the dispersion of people and their deviation from the straight Path. People of virtue and piety are, of course, loath to accept the idea of the loss of the Divine Message that has been revealed to  them by  the Lord of the Worlds.

To this reason, it has been deemed appropriate that the Islamic data base on the Internet should begin by featuring issue relating to the Revelation, the languages of the Revealed Messages in a diligent attempt to preserve the religious and civilizational heritage which is, indeed, the common patrimony of humanity, at large.

Given the importance of these studies, ISESCO has decided to bring them forth in book-form. On this occasion, I should like to convey my thanks and expressions of consideration to the authors of the said studies, namely, Dr. Abdelaziz Ben Abdellah, Dr. Ahmed Chahlane, Dr. Abdelaziz Chahbar, Dr. Mohammad Mokhtar Ould Bah and Dr. Hibah Nael Barakat.

We beseech Allah to make readers from different cultures derive ample benefit from the work and to make us live up to the command of the Noble Qur’an : “ O mankind ! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into Nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well-acquainted (with all  things).”

Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization