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on women", Bureau of people's Promotion and Participation, Ministry of Construction Jihad.
In these collections, more than ten thousand books, articles, theses, research drafts regarding women's affairs have been introduced, in Persian and Arabic. Further the works published in other languages, and even in Arabic, were more than these. A vivid evidence for this claim, being the news about organising a book fair for Arab women in Cairo with 1500 book titles, in the period 1620 November 1995 . In this fair only 24 publication houses and universities participated.221
Five Outstanding Works
After presenting this report surveying the situation of writings on women's affairs, it is proper to turn here to point out with explanation of five compilations on women's affairs. The reason why I chose them lies in the fact that these books are more than one volume and tackled the issues with a new view, though their compilers having not one and the same mode of thinking. In these works, attention was concentrated on issues and subjects be more interested by woman to read, covering also the recent new questions and suspicions. On the other hand, these books are inscribed in Arabic, and cannot be used by Farsispeaking people. These general introductions can acquaint the Farsispeaking people with other thoughts and ideas, to some extent. I think getting acquainted with these compilations helps complementing the discussions of this book. The identified collections are as follows:
1 . AlMufassal Fi Ahkaam AlMar'ah WalBayt AlMuslim 11 volumes.
2 . Tahreer AlMar'ah Fi 'Asr ArRisaalah 6 volumes.
3 . Masa'il Harijah Fi Fiqh AlMar'ah 4 volumes.
4 . AlMar'ah FilFikr AlIslami 2 volumes.
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221 . Hamshahri daily, 4th year, issue no. 869 (28-12-1995), p. 10 .
28 . Jami' AlOsool, of Ibn AlAthir.
The first part of this book contains the narrations taken from Saheeh AlBukhari and Saheeh Muslim, and in the second part other traditions are recorded. The order and classification of traditions are done in the same manner as that of Saheeh AlBukhaari.
The author claims that the traditions whose weakness was widely known have not been stated in this book "vol.II, p.8". In the introduction to volumes I & II a brief account on the most distinguished women narrators is introduced. Number of women whose biographies are shown was forty, of whom 27 names appeared in volume I and thirteen names in volume II. A short biography also of the Prophet's wives is given in the outset of volume I. In the footnotes the author mentions the sources of traditions, adding to them details about chain of transmission "sanad", narrators, and meaning of some words. He states that the traditions reported by 'A'ishah were 2210 ones "vol.I, p.11". In the conclusion of the book he gives indices of notable women "'Alaam", with parties and themes of the traditions, for facilitating its use for readers.
It is clear that this book, with this extensive shape, can be considered novel and taken as a reference and basis for better and stronger works. Hence the effort of the author deserves appreciation and applause.
