Datasets:

hozifa1
/

islamic-scientific-heritage

Error code:   StreamingRowsError
Exception:    CastError
Message:      Couldn't cast
id: string
discipline: string
author_slug: string
book_slug: string
tier: string
copy_slug: string
title_arabic: string
title_english: string
author_arabic: string
author_english: string
editor_or_translator: string
publication_year: int64
language: string
description_arabic: string
source_repository: string
archive_identifier: string
pdf_filename: string
pdf_size_bytes: int64
pdf_size_mb: double
license: string
repository_path: string
work_title_ar: string
year_hijri: string
author_ar: string
description: string
edition_name_ar: string
edition_type: string
year_gregorian: string
institution_or_publisher: string
edition_name_en: string
author_en: string
shelfmark_or_id: string
files: list<item: string>
  child 0, item: string
discipline_ar: string
work_title_en: string
author_dates: struct<birth_hijri: int64, death_hijri: int64, birth_gregorian: int64, death_gregorian: int64>
  child 0, birth_hijri: int64
  child 1, death_hijri: int64
  child 2, birth_gregorian: int64
  child 3, death_gregorian: int64
to
{'work_title_ar': Value('string'), 'work_title_en': Value('string'), 'author_ar': Value('string'), 'author_en': Value('string'), 'author_dates': {'birth_hijri': Value('int64'), 'death_hijri': Value('int64'), 'birth_gregorian': Value('int64'), 'death_gregorian': Value('int64')}, 'discipline': Value('string'), 'discipline_ar': Value('string'), 'edition_name_ar': Value('string'), 'edition_name_en': Value('string'), 'edition_type': Value('string'), 'institution_or_publisher': Value('string'), 'shelfmark_or_id': Value('string'), 'year_gregorian': Value('string'), 'year_hijri': Value('string'), 'language': Value('string'), 'description': Value('string'), 'files': List(Value('string'))}
because column names don't match
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 147, in get_rows_or_raise
                  return get_rows(
                      dataset=dataset,
                  ...<4 lines>...
                      column_names=column_names,
                  )
                File "/src/libs/libcommon/src/libcommon/utils.py", line 272, in decorator
                  return func(*args, **kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 127, in get_rows
                  rows_plus_one = list(itertools.islice(safe_iter(ds, dataset=dataset), rows_max_number + 1))
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 483, in safe_iter
                  yield from ds.decode(False) if ds.features else ds
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2840, in __iter__
                  for key, example in ex_iterable:
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2373, in __iter__
                  for key, pa_table in self._iter_arrow():
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2398, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.ex_iterable._iter_arrow():
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 536, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in iterator:
                                       ^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 419, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.generate_tables_fn(**gen_kwags):
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 343, in _generate_tables
                  self._cast_table(pa_table, json_field_paths=json_field_paths),
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 132, in _cast_table
                  pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self.info.features.arrow_schema)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2378, in table_cast
                  return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2306, in cast_table_to_schema
                  raise CastError(
                  ...<3 lines>...
                  )
              datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
              id: string
              discipline: string
              author_slug: string
              book_slug: string
              tier: string
              copy_slug: string
              title_arabic: string
              title_english: string
              author_arabic: string
              author_english: string
              editor_or_translator: string
              publication_year: int64
              language: string
              description_arabic: string
              source_repository: string
              archive_identifier: string
              pdf_filename: string
              pdf_size_bytes: int64
              pdf_size_mb: double
              license: string
              repository_path: string
              work_title_ar: string
              year_hijri: string
              author_ar: string
              description: string
              edition_name_ar: string
              edition_type: string
              year_gregorian: string
              institution_or_publisher: string
              edition_name_en: string
              author_en: string
              shelfmark_or_id: string
              files: list<item: string>
                child 0, item: string
              discipline_ar: string
              work_title_en: string
              author_dates: struct<birth_hijri: int64, death_hijri: int64, birth_gregorian: int64, death_gregorian: int64>
                child 0, birth_hijri: int64
                child 1, death_hijri: int64
                child 2, birth_gregorian: int64
                child 3, death_gregorian: int64
              to
              {'work_title_ar': Value('string'), 'work_title_en': Value('string'), 'author_ar': Value('string'), 'author_en': Value('string'), 'author_dates': {'birth_hijri': Value('int64'), 'death_hijri': Value('int64'), 'birth_gregorian': Value('int64'), 'death_gregorian': Value('int64')}, 'discipline': Value('string'), 'discipline_ar': Value('string'), 'edition_name_ar': Value('string'), 'edition_name_en': Value('string'), 'edition_type': Value('string'), 'institution_or_publisher': Value('string'), 'shelfmark_or_id': Value('string'), 'year_gregorian': Value('string'), 'year_hijri': Value('string'), 'language': Value('string'), 'description': Value('string'), 'files': List(Value('string'))}
              because column names don't match

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📜 Islamic Scientific Heritage Digital Corpus (450 Landmark Volumes)

المدونة الرقمية الشاملة للتراث العلمي العربي والإسلامي

🌟 Overview / نظرة عامة

The Islamic Scientific Heritage Digital Corpus is an exhaustive, systematically organized open digital repository preserving and structuring primary historical scientific sources from the Islamic Golden Age and classical Islamic civilization (8th–18th centuries CE).

The corpus features complete coverage of primary texts across 6 core scientific disciplines, curated in exact historical tiers:

01_original_manuscript_facsimile: High-resolution facsimiles of ancient codices (Topkapi, Paris, Escorial, Berlin, McGill, Leiden, Columbia, NLM, Süleymaniye).
02_critical_arabic_edition: Authoritative scholarly editions (editio princeps, BGA Brill, Hyderabad Osmania, Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyyah, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Damascus Arab Academy).
03_scholarly_translations: Classical Latin medieval translations (Translatio Toletana, Gerard of Cremona, Plato of Tivoli) and foundational European critical translations (Sédillot, Reinaud, Jaubert, Steinschneider, Kraus, Bos).

📊 Corpus Statistics (Live Repository)

Total Historical Volumes (PDFs): 450 volumes
Total Structured Archival Files: 2,146 files (100% full 4/4 quartets)
Total Corpus Volume: ~18.7 GB
Full Archival Quartets per Volume:
- [filename].pdf: High-resolution historical text.
- schema_metadata.json: Rich standardized metadata.
- metadata.csv: Tabular metadata record.
- metadata.parquet: High-performance binary columnar record.

Discipline Distribution:

01_medicine: 98 volumes
02_astronomy: 46 volumes
03_mathematics: 71 volumes
04_optics_mechanics_chemistry: 47 volumes
05_natural_history: 105 volumes
06_encyclopedias_institutions: 83 volumes

Tier Distribution:

01_original_manuscript_facsimile: 43 volumes
02_critical_arabic_edition: 258 volumes
03_scholarly_translations: 149 volumes

🏛️ Corpus Structure & Strict Hierarchy (Depth 6)

Every volume strictly adheres to the 6-level taxonomy:

[discipline] / [author_slug] / [book_slug] / [tier_slug] / [copy_slug] / [files]

Example:

03_mathematics/
  └── abu_yusuf_yaqub_ibn_ishaq_al_kindi_d256h/
      └── risalah_fi_istikhraj_al_muamma/
          └── 02_critical_arabic_edition/
              └── mrayati_miralam_tayyan_damascus_1987_vol01/
                  ├── al_kindi_istikhraj_al_muamma_damascus_vol01.pdf
                  ├── schema_metadata.json
                  ├── metadata.csv
                  └── metadata.parquet

🔬 Wave 11 Landmark Additions:

Al-Kindi (d. 256 AH): Risalah fi Istikhraj al-Mu'amma (Arab Academy of Damascus 1987, Vol 1: Birth of cryptanalysis, frequency analysis, and deciphering ciphers).
Ibn Durayhim & Ibn Dunaynir: Miftah al-Kunuz fi Idah al-Marmuz (Arab Academy of Damascus 1997, Vol 2: Polyalphabetic substitution and permutation mathematics).
Al-Tifashi (d. 651 AH): Azhar al-Afkar fi Jawahir al-Ahjar (Antonio Raineri Biscia, Florence 1818: First bilingual Arabic-Italian edition on mineralogy, gemstones, and specific gravity).
Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes, d. 313 AH): Kitab al-Shukuk 'ala Jalinus (Mehdi Mohaghegh, Tehran/McGill 1993: Foundational text of the experimental method and critique of Galenic physiology).
Abu Bakr al-Razi: Al-Tibb al-Ruhani & Opera Philosophica Fragmentaque (Paul Kraus, Cairo 1939 editio princeps: Psychological medicine and medical ethics).
Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar, d. 557 AH): Kitab al-Aghdhiya (Classical Andalusian treatise on medical nutrition and dietetics).
Al-Qalqashandi: Subh al-A'sha fi Sina'at al-Insha (Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyyah, Vols 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: Regional geography, state protocols, chancellery ciphers, treaties, and decrees).
Al-Nuwayri: Nihayat al-Arab fi Funun al-Adab (Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyyah, Vols 9, 11, 13, 14: Marine fauna & aquatic biology, mountains & mineral resources, ethnography & climes, and dynastic history).

📜 Citation & Attribution

@dataset{islamic_scientific_heritage_2026,
  author       = {Islamic Scientific Heritage Digital Corpus Project},
  title        = {Islamic Scientific Heritage Digital Corpus (450 Landmark Volumes)},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  version      = {11.0},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/hozifa1/islamic-scientific-heritage}
}

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