Datasets:

islamlab
/

islamic-scholars

license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
pretty_name: islamlab — Islamic Scholars Authority File
language:
  - ar
task_categories:
  - text-retrieval
  - question-answering
  - text-generation
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
tags:
  - islam
  - arabic
  - authority-file
  - prosopography
  - bibliography
  - classical-arabic
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: train-*.parquet

islamlab — Islamic Scholars Authority File

One row per scholar for the 2,420 authors whose work the corpus carries: the name, the death year in both calendars, the school he wrote in where the sources state one, the sciences he worked across, and the titles we hold.

Small table, but it is the one you need first: everything else in islamlab is keyed by work, and this is what turns a work into a person.

Spread by Hijri century — 1c: 53 · 2c: 49 · 3c: 220 · 4c: 274 · 5c: 246 · 6c: 213 · 7c: 237 · 8c: 331 · 9c: 206 · 10c: 152 · 11c: 100 · 12c: 79 · 13c: 153 · 14c: 100.

Columns

scholar_id — the author segment of the work identifier; joins to author_uri in the parent corpus.
name_ar, name_lat, death_year_ah, death_year_ce, century_ah.
madhhab — stated for 480 scholars; empty means the sources do not say, not that he had none.
sciences — space-separated shelves he appears on.
n_works, n_chars, works — his bibliography as we hold it (works is a JSON-encoded list of titles; parse it with json.loads).
n_biographical_notices — how many notices in islamlab/islamic-biographies name him (1,344 scholars are written about somewhere in the corpus). It is a name match, so read it as a pointer, not a count.
source — which library our copies came through.

Where this comes from

Derived from islamlab/islamic-sciences, which is where the gate, the provenance and the credits live: scope is Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jamāʿah, and a work enters only if its author died by 1350 AH, so every text is in the public domain. The machine-readable transcriptions carry CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, and so does this.

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