The uncovering of the doubts about the names of books and arts 1/10

Kashf al-Zunun is a circle of knowledge in books and sciences and is considered the most important of the author's classifications. Haji Khalifa spent more than twenty years collecting and writing it in Arabic. The first part was compiled in 1064 AH. The compiler listed about fifteen thousand (or said eighteen thousand) Arabic, Persian, and Turkish books, but the vast majority are Arabic books. The books are organized according to different sciences, and at the beginning of each section, he explained the benefit of each science and art, and discussed the origin of the science, its schools, and the famous scholars of it. The author says in the preface of the book: "As for what follows, since uncovering the subtleties of sciences and clarifying their truths is among the greatest blessings and noblest pursuits, Allah the Almighty has appointed in every era scholars who undertake the responsibilities of this great matter and who show diligence and interest in teaching and clarifying, especially the eminent imams from the scholars of Islam... However, their titles of writings have not yet been documented in separate chapters or sections, nor has any mention of a book been included." "And there is no doubt that illuminating the eye with the dust of news about their آثار (works/legacy) through thorough investigation is, by my life, more beneficial than scattering the sticks, for sciences and books are numerous, and life is precious, short, and grasping all their details is difficult, indeed impossible. The only requirement is to grasp their main points and understand their purposes. Allah has inspired me to gather their scattered parts and opened for me the doors to their causes, so I wrote down everything I saw through tracking down writings and browsing through books of history and biographies." Abdul Rahman Badawi comments and says that the author "must have personally seen all these books because he mentions the title, the beginning of the book, and its end, and provides some information about the author's life, and mentions the content of the book, and sometimes its main chapters. He must have undertaken many travels and researches to obtain this enormous collection of information."