Persian Islamicate prose: 237 works

README.md

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+---
+license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
+pretty_name: "islamlab — Persian Islamicate Prose"
+language:
+  - fa
+task_categories:
+  - text-generation
+  - text-retrieval
+size_categories:
+  - 10K<n<100K
+tags:
+  - persian
+  - islamicate
+  - historiography
+  - classical-persian
+  - islam
+configs:
+  - config_name: works
+    default: true
+    data_files:
+    - split: train
+      path: works/train-*.parquet
+  - config_name: units
+    data_files:
+    - split: train
+      path: units/train-*.parquet
+  - config_name: passages
+    data_files:
+    - split: train
+      path: passages/train-*.parquet
+---
+
+# islamlab — Persian Islamicate Prose
+
+**237 Persian works** by authors who died between the 4th and the
+13th Hijri century, segmented into **75,546 units** and **132,461 retrieval
+passages** — 131 million characters.
+
+Persian is the second language of Islamicate learning, and this is the part of
+it that survives the same gates the Arabic corpus is held to. What survives is
+chiefly **historiography** — Bayhaqī's *Tārīkh*, Mīrkhwānd's *Rawḍat al-ṣafā*,
+Sharaf al-Dīn Yazdī's *Ẓafar-nāma*, Abū al-Faḍl's *Akbar-nāma*, Firishta's
+*Tārīkh* — together with the *tadhkira* literature of biographical notices.
+
+| work | author | d. (AH) | size |
+|---|---|---:|---:|
+| Habib Siyar | Khwandamir | 942 | 6.0M |
+| ʿArafāt al-ʿāšiqīn | Awhadi Balyani | 1050 | 5.2M |
+| Tafsir | Abu Bakr Surabadi | 484 | 4.1M |
+| Tārīḫ | Muhammad Qasim Firishta | 1053 | 3.6M |
+| Tārīḫ Bayhaqī | Abu Fadl Bayhaqi | 470 | 2.8M |
+| Shāh Ǧahān Nāmah | Kanbuh Lahawri | 1082 | 2.5M |
+| Rawdat Safa | Mir Khwand | 903 | 2.2M |
+| Zafar Nama | Sharaf Din Yazdi | 858 | 2.0M |
+| Akbar Nama | Abu Fadl Callami | 1011 | 2.0M |
+| Khulasat Tawarikh | Ahmad Ibrahimi Husayni | 1026 | 1.9M |
+| Matlac Sacdayn | Cabd Razzaq Samarqandi | 887 | 1.9M |
+| Haft Iqlim | Amin Ahmad Razi | 1022 | 1.7M |
+
+## What is not here, and why
+
+This is a **separate dataset rather than a ninth shelf** of
+[`islamlab/islamic-sciences`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/islamlab/islamic-sciences),
+for two honest reasons.
+
+The first is metadata. OpenITI's Persian subcorpus is thinly catalogued: two
+thirds of it carries no genre tag at all, and a third has no death year in the
+identifier. The Arabic corpus files every work under a science because the
+sources say which one; here they do not, so no science is claimed. There are
+no shelves in this dataset — only works, units and passages.
+
+The second is the gate. The same rule that keeps Ibn ʿArabī and Ibn al-Fāriḍ
+out of the Arabic corpus keeps out the Persian Sufi poets — ʿAṭṭār, Rūmī,
+Sanāʾī, Jāmī — along with the Ismaili dāʿī Nāṣir-i Khusraw, the Twelver
+scholars, and the secular dīwāns, which are not an Islamic science in any
+language. That refusal is by **author name**, which is a blunter instrument
+than the Arabic side's tag-and-collection gate. Read this dataset knowing
+that: it is Persian Islamicate prose that passed a name-based filter, not a
+corpus each of whose authors has been vetted one by one.
+
+## Columns
+
+`works` carries `work_id`, the transliterated title and author,
+`death_year_ah` / `death_year_ce`, `century_ah`, size, and `text_quality`.
+`units` is one heading-delimited block per row with `page_start` / `page_end`
+anchors; `passages` re-cuts the same text to ~1,200 characters with a ready
+citation. Keys join across all three on `work_id` and `unit_id`.
+
+## Sources and licence
+
+The texts come from the **Open Islamicate Texts Initiative**, release
+2025.1.9 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), and this dataset carries the same terms. The works
+themselves are public domain; the gate admits nothing whose author died after
+1350 AH.
+
+Corrections and removal requests are welcome on the **Community** tab.

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