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No demonstration of notability with all the cited sources being bookstores/online libraries. Was de-prodded with a claim of "more than a thousand sources", but that is untrue. The ⬡ BestagonT/C 13:12, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Withdrawn by nominator - It has been demonstrated below that there are enough sources that discuss this book to meet GNG and NBOOK. The ⬡ BestagonT/C11:17, 17 February 2023 (UTC)reply
No, I didn't say that there were over a thousand sources. I said that one English translation had had over a thousand citations reported by Google Scholar, which you can see just by looking at the second entry you get by clicking on "scholar" in the deletion nomination. At least for me at the moment it shows 1188 citations for the translation by El-Helbawy, Siddiqui and Shukry.
Phil Bridger (
talk)
13:32, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Could you point us to good examples of reviews of the book or academic papers that give it more than a fleeting citation, please?
JMWt (
talk)
14:48, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
ISBN9780190900366, published by the Oxford University press, has coverage of the book in its chapter about its author.
ISBN9781135788001, from Taylor & Francis, has coverage on many pages. Page 146 of
ISBN9781134704019, also from Taylor & Francis, includes in its coverage, "the book ... became one of the bestsellers of the century on Islamic religious law, and has been printed in 30 editions and published in 20 languages."
ISBN9781317112549 (Taylor & Francis) has coverage. I don't have time at the moment to look beyond the first few Google Books results (which I got by searching for the title but excluding the author, i.e.
[1]) but this is clearly notable.
Phil Bridger (
talk)
15:57, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete - Having looked through JSTOR, Google Scholar, Google Books, The Wikipedia Library, and a couple of university library catalogues I have access to, I can't find any
significant coverage of this book. It certainly has a decent number of citations, but nothing to suggest that it meets
WP:NBOOK. The only thing that gets close to coverage is
this review - but at only two sentences it can hardly be called significant. I may well have missed something (especially non-English and/or offline sources), so if anyone uncovers anything, please ping me.
WJ94 (
talk)
14:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure what Google Books search arguments you used, but the search that I linked above found quite a few sources from reputable publishers, certainly a lot better than a two-sentence review. You asked to be pinged, so
here goes.
Phil Bridger (
talk)
16:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment to assist others, I've used ar.wiki to find references in Arabic. If you are interested to find references you probably need to search for the Arabic term الحلال والحرام في الإسلام and the ar.wiki page is here
[2].
JMWt (
talk)
15:35, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Note - Although I'm the nominator, I now concur with the above !votes and would like the article to be kept. I'm not sure of the appropriate way to withdraw the nomination though - I can't close it as I am not uninvolved. The ⬡ BestagonT/C10:45, 17 February 2023 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
No demonstration of notability with all the cited sources being bookstores/online libraries. Was de-prodded with a claim of "more than a thousand sources", but that is untrue. The ⬡ BestagonT/C 13:12, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Withdrawn by nominator - It has been demonstrated below that there are enough sources that discuss this book to meet GNG and NBOOK. The ⬡ BestagonT/C11:17, 17 February 2023 (UTC)reply
No, I didn't say that there were over a thousand sources. I said that one English translation had had over a thousand citations reported by Google Scholar, which you can see just by looking at the second entry you get by clicking on "scholar" in the deletion nomination. At least for me at the moment it shows 1188 citations for the translation by El-Helbawy, Siddiqui and Shukry.
Phil Bridger (
talk)
13:32, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Could you point us to good examples of reviews of the book or academic papers that give it more than a fleeting citation, please?
JMWt (
talk)
14:48, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
ISBN9780190900366, published by the Oxford University press, has coverage of the book in its chapter about its author.
ISBN9781135788001, from Taylor & Francis, has coverage on many pages. Page 146 of
ISBN9781134704019, also from Taylor & Francis, includes in its coverage, "the book ... became one of the bestsellers of the century on Islamic religious law, and has been printed in 30 editions and published in 20 languages."
ISBN9781317112549 (Taylor & Francis) has coverage. I don't have time at the moment to look beyond the first few Google Books results (which I got by searching for the title but excluding the author, i.e.
[1]) but this is clearly notable.
Phil Bridger (
talk)
15:57, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete - Having looked through JSTOR, Google Scholar, Google Books, The Wikipedia Library, and a couple of university library catalogues I have access to, I can't find any
significant coverage of this book. It certainly has a decent number of citations, but nothing to suggest that it meets
WP:NBOOK. The only thing that gets close to coverage is
this review - but at only two sentences it can hardly be called significant. I may well have missed something (especially non-English and/or offline sources), so if anyone uncovers anything, please ping me.
WJ94 (
talk)
14:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure what Google Books search arguments you used, but the search that I linked above found quite a few sources from reputable publishers, certainly a lot better than a two-sentence review. You asked to be pinged, so
here goes.
Phil Bridger (
talk)
16:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment to assist others, I've used ar.wiki to find references in Arabic. If you are interested to find references you probably need to search for the Arabic term الحلال والحرام في الإسلام and the ar.wiki page is here
[2].
JMWt (
talk)
15:35, 16 February 2023 (UTC)reply
Note - Although I'm the nominator, I now concur with the above !votes and would like the article to be kept. I'm not sure of the appropriate way to withdraw the nomination though - I can't close it as I am not uninvolved. The ⬡ BestagonT/C10:45, 17 February 2023 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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