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easier to navigate his “Hadith Data Warehouse.”40 The design, which had become
very bloated, reverted to a more streamlined format similar to the one of
early 2007 and presented “Shaykh Ahmad Darwish” as the faithful servant
(khadim) of the two master keepers of proper Islamic tradition, al-Ghumari (for
Prophetic Tradition) and al-Sha"rawi (for the Koran).41 Framed by these two,
and visually cast in their mold, he was now founder and “full time research
scholar” of Dar al-#adith al-Sharif"ala ’l-Internet (“The House of Prophetic Tradition
on the Internet”). His goal there, he proclaimed, was to establish, with
computer aid, no less than the definitive text of Prophetic Tradition, in analogy
to the establishment of the canonical text of the Koran undertaken under the
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authority of the third caliph, "Uthman (r. 644–656) (“taghliq jam"al-#adith al-
Sharif mithla jam"al-Quran al-Karim”)—a goal that he set after looking at the
shortcomings of The scholarly Saudi Society for the Prophetic Sunnah
(http://www.sunnah.org.sa), a high-profile official institution that became operative
in 2005. “Praise be to God who graced me with designing a ‘live’ effort that is
better than the effort of the team of [Shaykh Mahir] al-Fa"l, all by myself. This is
Majma"al-a"adith, a work that encompasses 50000 man years of the work of
very bloated, reverted to a more streamlined format similar to the one of
early 2007 and presented “Shaykh Ahmad Darwish” as the faithful servant
(khadim) of the two master keepers of proper Islamic tradition, al-Ghumari (for
Prophetic Tradition) and al-Sha"rawi (for the Koran).41 Framed by these two,
and visually cast in their mold, he was now founder and “full time research
scholar” of Dar al-#adith al-Sharif"ala ’l-Internet (“The House of Prophetic Tradition
on the Internet”). His goal there, he proclaimed, was to establish, with
computer aid, no less than the definitive text of Prophetic Tradition, in analogy
to the establishment of the canonical text of the Koran undertaken under the
128 WEB HISTORY
authority of the third caliph, "Uthman (r. 644–656) (“taghliq jam"al-#adith al-
Sharif mithla jam"al-Quran al-Karim”)—a goal that he set after looking at the
shortcomings of The scholarly Saudi Society for the Prophetic Sunnah
(http://www.sunnah.org.sa), a high-profile official institution that became operative
in 2005. “Praise be to God who graced me with designing a ‘live’ effort that is
better than the effort of the team of [Shaykh Mahir] al-Fa"l, all by myself. This is
Majma"al-a"adith, a work that encompasses 50000 man years of the work of