Reflections on the Investigation of the manuscript “ Manaqibs of Al-Sharif Al-Tlemceni and his two sons”Documentation of the author and title as a model

Abstract

There is no doubt that being able to extract the manuscript from its original form into a verified text is in itself a great achievement, because of the many benefits that result from it, and in view of the amount of hardships that those who work on it endure in order to bring it to light, however, no matter how careful and honest it is in dealing with it. Despite this challenge, and made every effort to produce it in the best possible image, however, the degree of its reliability always remains dependent on the references provided by the text itself, and what the investigator obtains from source texts and recent studies that support and increase its clarification. For many of the achieved works, albeit to varying degrees, which makes them always open to revision and revision, whether in revised editions, or within independent studies.

          Within this direction, our study came to remedy some of the deficiencies in the investigation of the Manuscript of the “ Manaqibs   of Al-Sharif Al-Tlemceni and his two sons“, in an approach that identifies some of the defects in it, and seeks to increase its documentary value, especially those related to the title and the author, by scrutinizing its texts, and expanding the circle of investigation to sources Others directly related to it.