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Source text, commentary and scholarship
Choose evidence according to the claim you are making and make the chain of transmission visible.
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English library
English introductions and reading tools, with clear links to the primary sources.
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Quotation boundaries: omissions, additions and explanation
Keep the source’s wording separate from paraphrase and make editorial interventions visible.
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When is a passage ready for translation?
Prepare the Arabic wording, references and terminology before deciding on foreign-language equivalents.
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How to record a difference between witnesses
Describe the evidence before choosing a preferred reading.
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Letters and language: reading the levels of meaning
Distinguish a letter, its name and the relationships developed from it.
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Love, constancy, intensity and inclination
Read the distinctions among mahabba, wudd, ishq and hawa within their particular contexts.
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Mercy: universality, particularity and care
Connect the discussion of mercy with practical care while preserving the differences between contexts.
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Conduct, worship and rights
Follow knowledge into action through circumstances, responsibility and the rights of others.
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Barzakh, imagination and careful discrimination
How a boundary joins two sides while preserving their differences.
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