manuscripts had multiplied in libraries the world over—clear testimony to the attention and care it enjoyed—we likewise find that, from the very dawn of the printing age, the book continued to attract notice. It was first printed in India under the title “Hidāyat al-Ḥayārā min al-Yahūd wa-l-Naṣārā,” although the exact date of that edition is unknown; it is, however, cited in A Catalogue of Arabic Prints in the Indian Sub-Continent.

It was later printed in Egypt at the Taqaddum Press in 1323 AH on the margins of the work Al-Fāriq bayna al-Makhluq wa-l-Khāliq. This same impression was subsequently reproduced in facsimile by Dār al-Kitāb al-Islāmī li-Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth in Egypt, without date. In that same year it also appeared, for the first time, as a stand-alone volume in Egypt, and it is reported that it was reissued independently in 1333 AH.

Further editions followed. It was published by the Islamic University in Medina in 1396 AH; printed along with Majmūʿat al-Tawḥīd in Egypt and later in Riyadh; reprinted in 2003 CE by Maktabat al-Fatḥ lil-Iʿlām al-ʿArabī in Cairo, where Maktabat al-Qīmah also issued an edition. Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah in Beirut released a printing in 1415 AH. A critically edited version by Aḥmad Ḥijāzī al-Saqā was published by Maktabat al-Qīmah in Cairo in 1399 AH. Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Ḥājj prepared another scholarly edition accompanied by a study of the book, for which he was awarded a doctorate at Imam Muḥammad ibn Saʿūd University in Riyadh; this dissertation was published by Dār al-Qalam in Damascus in its first edition of 1416 AH.

There may well be other printings, yet it suffices here to observe that our aim in this paragraph is neither to list every edition exhaustively nor to evaluate or critique them. Each has performed a valuable service, and some of them display praiseworthy effort; others invite certain remarks. No scholarly labor is entirely free of observations, reservations, or differences of opinion concerning textual verification and presentation.