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He also vowed to create a new version of the program that did not include any book taken from a commercial product. He claimed not to have shared his program with more than a handful of scholars, and to have been surprised when he noticed, two years later, another member of the Ahl al-бё¤adД«th forum, with whom he had not shared the program, and whom he did not even know, offering it (for free) to other members. While admitting these included books from al-TurДЃth, he strenuously denied that Shamela was вЂњal-TurДЃth in another jacketвЂќ, adducing proof that he had included books and data from many different sources. InВ his statement, he claimed he had developed the program for himself, to enable him to simultaneously search the different collections of digital books all of which he had legally. The discussion lasted for weeks, and eventually prompted NДЃfiКї, the creator of the program himself, to react in a post on the forum. In their reaction, the forum moderators thanked al-TurДЃth for their huge service to the field and IslДЃm, but also defended its forum members involved in the creation and distribution of the program as driven only by love for Islam. In its statement, al-TurДЃth apologized for their earlier reaction, before explaining in detail why it considered the program an act of theft (of digitized texts and specialized data) that would kill off not only the company but also all industry-led digitization efforts. A new discussion threadВ was eventually opened on 7 May, with a statementВ from al-TurДЃth and a responseВ from the forum moderators. This post led to such a heated discussion that the forum moderators had to removeВ the thread, and ban all content related to al-mawsЕ«Кїa al-shДЃmila on.

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So much so that the pioneering publishing house of digital texts, Markaz al-TurДЃth lil-barДЃmijДЃtВ (the publisher of al-JДЃmiКї al-KabД«r, that other main source of texts in our corpus), launched an acrimonious attack against the program on the Ahl al-бё¤adД«th forum, accusing NДЃfiКї of stealing its software and content.

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When the program, containing 969 free books, first appeared on internet fora for Islamic scholars in early 2005, it met with a lot of enthusiasm. The program was created by an Egyptian member of the Ahl al-бё¤adД«th forumВ known only as NДЃfiКї (often referred to affectionately on specialized internet fora asВ al-akh NДЃfiКї вЂњBrother NДЃfiКївЂќ orВ duktЕ«r / al-ustДЃdh NДЃfiКїВ вЂњDr.

In its first iteration, it was calledВ al-mawsЕ«Кїa al-shДЃmilaВ (вЂњThe Comprehensive EncyclopaediaвЂќ).