Document Type : Original Article
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Assistant Professor, in Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Encyclopedia Compiling, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Khairat al Hassan is a biographical anthology from the Qajar period, rich in historical, literary, and social information, attributes that lend it an encyclopedic character. Due to the inaccessibility of its lithographic edition, a new critical edition was published in 2015 (1394 AH) by Dr. Abolghasem Radfar and Robab Sadeghi Oskooei. The shortcomings of this edition may be categorized into three general groups: 1) Errors originating from Etemad al Saltaneh, particularly in his translations from Turkish or in the transcription of book titles and poems, issues that the editors overlooked, which consequently found their way into the printed edition. 2) Editorial errors made by the recent editors themselves in reading or transcribing names and verses. This includes mistakes in the critical apparatus, misattribution of sources, faulty transcription of Turkish verses, inaccuracies in the names of books and figures, misinterpretation of certain terms and idioms, as well as typographical errors, all of which are discussed and evaluated. 3) The absence of annotations where they were clearly needed, and the lack of essential indexes. Given the work’s inclusion of numerous names of individuals, places, books, Qur’anic verses, hadiths, proverbs, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish verses, and Turkish vocabulary, the absence of such tools
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