Editorial Foreword

In Issue 2, Volume 42, readers will find a collection of outstanding research papers in Arabic and English.It comprises eight articles, four in Arabic and the others in English, authored by researchers from diverse countries worldwide, including Russia, Kenya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan.The articles featured in this edition encompass various disciplines within Islamic studies.For instance, in their "Christian Trinity in the Writings of Quranic Exegetes: A Comparison with Islamic Polemicists," Khaled b.Mansour Almutlaq and Khaled b.Muhammad Alshunyber (both from Saudi Arabia) compare the perspectives of sixteen Quranic exegetes with those of Islamic polemicists who specialise in Christian studies, particularly in their treatment of the Christian concept of the Trinity.Their study concludes that Islamic polemicists demonstrate remarkable precision and methodological coherence in elucidating the concept of the Christian Trinity when compared to the interpretations offered by the exegetes.The discrepancy between the assertions of the exegetes underscores the advantage of polemicists' specialisation within the realm of religious studies.