出版社：Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre University of Karachi
摘要：Extensive effort is being exerted in making available Hadith literature in a computeried form and its wide dissemination using web and other media. The effort is currntly focused on enabling pre specified indexing and searches. There is now an increasing efort to tag specific categories of words in the text with definitions and tables enabling rmore iteligent searches. However,these database- oriented efforts still do not expose the database design for research and exploration through established computer science technologies such as algorithmic searches and relational querying. This paper presents the results of our research to define a graph theoretic representation of the chain of narrators of Hadiths and an aligned database structure suitable for storing Karachl Institute of Economics & Technology,Karachi,Pakistan Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology,Shaikh Zayed Islamic Research Center,University of Karachi 14 Towatb a Dagese Oierte ReeachnHeatht the biographical data of the narrators and other historical events. Thesis of this paper is that the use of computer science concepts for algorithmic research,database querles,data- warehouses and use of advanced data-mining techniques greatly asslsts Hadith research and research in Islamic history and lterature. It would make available our vast Hadith literature in a format amenable for CrOss venification and analysls in a computationally feasible manner. Certain classes of analysis that were considered intractable earlier may become feasible using current technologies.
