Edited sentence: It is based on western tradition, both academic and artistic, of hostile and deprecatory views of the East, shaped by the attitudes of European imperialism.The Encyclopaedia of Islam is very European and some believe anti-Islamic in approach.The Government of Pakistan formed  a committee of scholars who began work on an Encyclopaedia of Islam in Urdu in 1950.The first phase of the project was completed in 1992 with the publication of 24 volumes.The work is also called Daarya Muaarif Uloom-e-Islamya.There is an alternative to this Orientalism Encyclopaedia and its described below:.This is a far better Encyclopaedia rhen the European one which smacks of Orientalism.Two volumes of supplements to the main text have since been completed and work on further supplements is on-going