al ilm publishing

Al-Ilm Publishing House is a specialized brand affiliated with the international publishing group OmniScriptum, which is a German publishing house founded in 2002 in the city of Dusseldorf, and currently manages its business from its main headquarters in the capital of the Republic of Moldova, “Chisinau,” in addition to offices in London, the United Kingdom. The group is managed by CEOs Virtoria Orso and Eva Konstantinova.The intellectual vision and primary goal of this house is determined in working to spread Islamic knowledge and sciences on a global scale, based on the Islamic principle that sees the pursuit of knowledge as obligatory for every Muslim. The house focuses in particular on printing and publishing the writings and research of Islamic scholars, jurists, and thinkers and converting them into paper books that are distributed internationally. Its publishing fields include topics of faith, philosophy, Sharia and law, ethics, Sharia politics, and other human sciences and wisdom.In its business model, the publishing house relies on a modern technology known as Print on Demand, which is a mechanism in which the book is not printed and stored in large quantities in advance, but rather the paper copy is printed only when the reader purchases it online. This model allows the house to provide completely free publishing services to authors, as the writer or researcher does not bear any financial costs for printing his book, and the house undertakes the design processes, allocating the international standard number for the book, and distributing the work.The house is responsible for marketing and providing its books through digital distribution networks and major international stores such as the Amazon platform, in addition to its joint store, More Books, which displays millions of titles in various languages ​​and specialties. Despite the spread of this model and its ability to deliver books to global platforms, the OmniScriptum group that owns it sometimes faces criticism in Western academic circles. Some universities and research institutions classify them as commercial publishing houses, or what are known as “bad publishing houses,” due to theirDue to its lack of restrictions on content review and rapid acceptance of manuscripts with the aim of increasing online sales volume.