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This book comprises a set of researches and scientific papers presented at the Seventh Training Course on Editing organised by the Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts at Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation with Dar al-Ḥadith al-Ḥassania, and held on 3 - 8 March 2014 at Dar al-Ḥadith al-Ḥassania Institute in Rabat, Morocco.
The research papers included the history of editing in the discipline of noble Prophetic traditions (Ḥadīth) as well as the discipline of biographies (tarājim) and scholar transmission and hierarchies (mashyakhāt) in both theory and practice, including the steps involved: the knowledge needed by the editor of the full spectrum of tasks, whether on the theoretical level, such as the scientific conception of editing, its fundamentals, approaches, and problems, and the sources that the editor must explore; or on the practical level, such as text selection and documentation, search and criticism of extant copies, exploring editing traditions, the process of copying and collation, edition and treatment, commentary, study... in addition to treating interpolation, variation in text narrations in the Ḥadīth manuscript, and ex-libris text: its types, classification and derived benefits, etc..
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This book comprises a set of researches and scientific papers presented at the Seventh Training Course on Editing organised by the Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts at Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation with Dar al-Ḥadith al-Ḥassania, and held on 3 - 8 March 2014 at Dar al-Ḥadith al-Ḥassania Institute in Rabat, Morocco.
The research papers included the history of editing in the discipline of noble Prophetic traditions (Ḥadīth) as well as the discipline of biographies (tarājim) and scholar transmission and hierarchies (mashyakhāt) in both theory and practice, including the steps involved: the knowledge needed by the editor of the full spectrum of tasks, whether on the theoretical level, such as the scientific conception of editing, its fundamentals, approaches, and problems, and the sources that the editor must explore; or on the practical level, such as text selection and documentation, search and criticism of extant copies, exploring editing traditions, the process of copying and collation, edition and treatment, commentary, study... in addition to treating interpolation, variation in text narrations in the Ḥadīth manuscript, and ex-libris text: its types, classification and derived benefits, etc..
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This book comprises a set of researches and scientific papers presented at the Seventh Training Course on Editing organised by the Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts at Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation with Dar al-Ḥadith al-Ḥassania, and held on 3 - 8 March 2014 at Dar al-Ḥadith al-Ḥassania Institute in Rabat, Morocco.
The research papers included the history of editing in the discipline of noble Prophetic traditions (Ḥadīth) as well as the discipline of biographies (tarājim) and scholar transmission and hierarchies (mashyakhāt) in both theory and practice, including the steps involved: the knowledge needed by the editor of the full spectrum of tasks, whether on the theoretical level, such as the scientific conception of editing, its fundamentals, approaches, and problems, and the sources that the editor must explore; or on the practical level, such as text selection and documentation, search and criticism of extant copies, exploring editing traditions, the process of copying and collation, edition and treatment, commentary, study... in addition to treating interpolation, variation in text narrations in the Ḥadīth manuscript, and ex-libris text: its types, classification and derived benefits, etc..
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Society and Social Sciences > Society and culture: general > Social groups, communities and identities > Social groups: religious groups and communities
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Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
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Editing Manuscripts in the Field of Hadith and its Sciences and Biographies is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781905122608)