ARABIC LITERATURE ISSUES BY CHARLES PELLAT IN THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM

Charles Pellat is an orientalist scholar. He has numerous works in The Encyclopaedia of Islam which contains 11 volumes. However, there were only eight entries that fit the writings of Charles Pellat throughout his life. This study was conducted in order to analyze the issues highlighted by Charles Pellat in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Those issues will be analyzed from the whole volumes of The Encyclopaedia of Islam. This study uses qualitative methodology, and document analysis to achieve the objectives of the study which is to identify the issues highlighted by Charles Pellat in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. The result of this study shows that his writing in The Encyclopaedia of Islam was focusing on three main issues which are Arabic literature, the history of Islam and grammar.