انتشار ذيلي تازه بر كشف الظنون

A New Completion of Kashf al-Zunun

The art of text editing and research requires various skills and knowledge, most significantly the knowledge of bibliography (^Li^li—? j ihrough which a scholar can recognize her/his desired research sources. Haj Khalifaʹs Kashf al-Zunun is an important source of bibliography applicable to scholars of various fields of studies, including text editors and text researchers. There are several completions written for this work. One ofrecently published in Beirut, is introduced, and, received an analytical criticism in the present paper. Sir al- Masoon zayl ala Kashf al-zunun offers useful bibliographic pieces of information to the scholars, although it is not error free - particularly on the Persian works - some of which are discussed in the present paper.