Includes "...terms relating specifically to Islamic concepts, Islamic ritual and law, technical terms relating to hadith, hajj, philosophy, Sufism, hagiolatry, and pilgrimage, as well as proper nouns relating to the names and epithets of God and the prophets, those relating to specific religious locales central to the Islamic faith as a whole, and the names of the suras of the Qur'an ..." (from introductory pages). With indexes in Arabic, Bashkir, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Uyghur (Uygur), and Uzbek.

Central Asia "...comprises the republics of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, plus the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Rpublic of China. Linguistically, it comprises the respective titular literary languages of these republics, namely: Tajik, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Turkmen, as well as Karakalpak, the titular literary language of the Karakalpak Autonomous Republic in northwestern Uzbekistan. Tatar and Bashkir have been added to this dictionary, two languages spoken by Muslim nationalities residing in the Volga-Ural region of Russia, centered in the Tartarstan and Bashkortostan" (from introductory pages).