Ayman Abdeljabbar Al-Buhairi’s Verification of _The Graceful and Flourishing Branches on the Evidences of Political Rulings by Ahmad Abdullah Hanash: A Metho-Critical Study
This study aims to critically evaluate the scholarly editing of Al-Ghusoon al-Miyasa through a structured methodological approach combining descriptive, analytical, and critical methods. The descriptive method was used to assess the editor’s introduction and editorial approach; the analytical method compared the edited text with two manuscript copies and original sources; and the critical method identified methodological flaws and their impact on textual integrity.
The research is divided into two main sections: the first introduces the author, the book, and the editor; the second evaluates the editor’s performance across four thematic areas. The findings revealed major editorial issues, including reliance on a single manuscript, poor textual organization, lack of scholarly annotation, biographical inaccuracies, misattribution of sources, and conceptual errors in legal and theological content.
The study concludes with actionable recommendations: thorough collation of available manuscripts, adherence to editorial standards, inclusion of scholarly commentary, accurate biographical referencing, development of a methodological guide, digital collation tools, collaborative editing, and revision of academic publishing criteria. This research contributes to improving the quality and reliability of classical text editing in Islamic studies.
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