# Credits and terms

## The texts

Every work in this corpus is **public domain**. The gate is the author's death
year, taken from the canonical work identifier: a work is admitted only if its
author died by **1350 AH (1931 CE)**, which clears life-plus-seventy in every
jurisdiction. The latest author present is صالح بن محمد اللحيدان (d.
1350 AH / 1931 CE). Works whose
authors died later were not included by reference either — they were simply
left out.

Distribution of works by the author's Hijri century: 0c: 7, 1c: 58, 2c: 61, 3c: 324, 4c: 389, 5c: 379, 6c: 358, 7c: 359, 8c: 672, 9c: 360, 10c: 352, 11c: 157, 12c: 110, 13c: 249, 14c: 187.

## The transcriptions

The texts reached us as machine-readable files from the **Open Islamicate Texts
Initiative**, release 2025.1.9, which is licensed **CC BY-NC-SA 4.0**. That
licence travels with the data: reuse of this dataset must remain
**non-commercial**, must **preserve attribution**, and must be shared under
**the same licence**. This is the binding term for the dataset as a whole, and
it is stricter than the public-domain status of the underlying works.

Printed editions, where the source records one, are named per work in the
`edition` column of the `works` config rather than repeated here.

## Removal

A removal-on-request statement is not treated as permission to redistribute a
copyrighted full text, and nothing here relies on one. If you nevertheless hold
rights to something in this corpus, open a discussion on the **Community** tab
and it will be removed promptly and without argument.