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| 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 |
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| |
| # islamlab — Islamic Scholars Authority File |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| ## Columns |
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| - `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`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/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. |
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| ## Where this comes from |
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| Derived from |
| [`islamlab/islamic-sciences`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/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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| Corrections and removal requests are welcome on the **Community** tab. |
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