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Nahj al-Balāghah: The Word of ʿAlī

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This book hasn't received attention from any reliable, independent sources so far, and thus isn't notable. Fram (talk) 14:18, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Religion and Islam. Fram (talk) 14:18, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fram, thanks for your help with this. I have added a citation from a prominent news website regarding the book. Let me know what else I can do to keep the page. Thanks and all the best, Josh. Earlymoderneditor (talk) 14:30, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This one? "Our project is a multi-volume work which consists of more than 10 thousand annotations and footnotes. We are pleased to announce that, God-willing, this monumental work is scheduled to be published in 2025." This isn't an independent source, it is a press release from the publishers / translators. So no, it doesn't help. Fram (talk) 15:04, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Which book? The unpublished book that the article at hand is pushing and telling us is coming out real soon now and is the first English translation, underneath a lengthy duplicate discussion of the Nahj al-balagha (which already has a translations section)? Or the published in 2024 English translation LCCN 2023-54675 by Tahera Qutbuddin? ☺
The "prominent news website" turns out to be press releases from the organization founded by the (first) book's author, talking (10 days ago) in the future tense of "forthcoming publications" that have not happened yet, and that the world at large thus cannot possibly have independently documented outwith these autobiographical press releases.
The Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi biography of a living person is cited almost entirely to autobiographical press releases, too.
Uncle G (talk) 15:03, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Info - Note to closer for soft deletion: While this discussion appears to have no quorum, it is NOT eligible for soft deletion because it has been previously PROD'd (via summary).

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--Cewbot (talk) 00:02, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: what cewbot said.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 04:03, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen× ☎ 13:57, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete not seeing any independent sigcov. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 09:33, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nahj al-Balāghah: The Word of ʿAlī

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