Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al-Nabarawi

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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) WJ94 (talk) 19:40, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Al-Nabarawi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Tagged for notability since 2010. Fails WP:GNG. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:10, 21 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Science, and Iraq. UtherSRG (talk) 13:10, 21 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:32, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Actually quite notable. There is an English translation of his book. He's got an Iranica article and an EI2 article. The only source in the article actually gives his death date as 1193. I can't fault the nominator for failing to connect the dots, however. They are very hard to connect. But they illustrate the difficulty of approaching topics where there is no definitive English spelling. First, Google distinguishes "al-Nabarawi" from the form with the macrons, "al-Nabarāwī". The latter will be more common in academic writing. Also, the Arabic may be spelled "al-Nibrawi" (again, with our without macrons). In addition, it is only one part (nisba) of a full Arabic name and in this case the primary sources are not consistent. Both of the two reference works I cited prefer the nisba al-Shayzarī. Note that Iranica drops the Arabic al- (as Persian does). They would do the same with Nabarawi. Sources that use "al-Nabarawi" may ultimately rely on Brockelmann, who strings together all the nisbas, putting al-Nabarawi last. Srnec (talk) 20:11, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per the sources uncovered by Srnec. 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 03:59, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Appears to be notable from the sources found by Srnec. Mgp28 (talk) 09:19, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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