The culture of the investigator an introduction to the science of investigating Arabic manuscripts

Because the theoretical writings on the science of investigation over the course of the extended decades of the twentieth century, or at least its latter half, neglected to speak about the culture of the investigator and started directly with what is called investigation procedures, which are the procedures that the investigator should follow to produce a text in a proper form free of technical defects and errors. Therefore, the need arose to establish the culture of the investigator working on the manuscript heritage text. Many studies have been conducted on the Arabic manuscript book in terms of defining it and the sciences surrounding it such as the science of cataloging, the science of investigation, the science of codicology, the science of classification of sciences... and other sciences, and such studies occupied a wide space in contemporary heritage studies compared to the space allocated for talking about the investigator working on the text. Thus, this book is a brief study of this important topic to outline for those wishing to undertake heritage work the ways that should be followed; so that they are qualified to walk this arduous and at the same time enjoyable path.