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INDICES

Two volumes of analytical indices to all the printed texts are supplied, entitled Maknaz al-Mustarshidin. This takes the form of a subject index which lists, for each hadith collection, each hadith by number, and then supplies references to all replicated or similar hadiths in the other collections, together with the relevant number in al-Mizzi’s Tuhfat al-Ashraf. Many unusual words (gharib) are also defined. The analytical index also contains a comprehensive list of chapter titles in each hadith collection and the relevant page numbers in the Foundation’s printed edition. It is planned that new volumes of the Maknaz al-Mustarshidin will subsequently be added, which will contain more detailed exegetic material, including biographical data on narrators and information on places and events,

 together with variant readings and the critical apparatus which has been generated by the editing of each collection. In this connection, there will be available online for IHSAN members (see The IHSAN network): Facsimiles of major manuscripts; Bibliographical information on major manuscripts as well as other useful reference material.

CD-ROM BOX WITH INTRODUCTION

A separate hand-crafted case-bound volume includes a detailed Arabic-language introduction to the system and to the traditional science of hadith, plus a CD-ROM of the entire Database (see Electronic Publishing).