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The result was redirect‎ to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad bibliography. A "soft" close - no prejudice against spinning this back out if specific sources about the book are found. asilvering (talk) 05:36, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Book that fails WP:GNG. WhoIsCentreLeft (talk) 20:53, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Islam and Middle East. WhoIsCentreLeft (talk) 20:53, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:16, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you attempt a WP:BEFORE check? Because given the circumstances about who wrote this book I would be astonished if it wasn't notable. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:34, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think that it would be good to search in Urdu. As far as notability goes, per his bibliography page the guy was fairly prolific with his writings, publishing about 60-80 works that were eventually collected into 23 volumes. In my experience with religious writings, when someone puts out that much work the coverage tends to focus on the overall themes and styles in their writing rather than individual pieces. It's possible that there is coverage, so a search should be done, but I will say that so far I'm not pulling up much. A lot of it goes to SPS or are false positives.

Offhand my thought is to redirect to the bibliography page, where there's already a general overview of his writings. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:04, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad bibliography. Barring there being sourcing in Urdu (original language of the work per the article), I just don't see where this specific work is independently notable from the author and his body of work. This figure was very prolific and as often tends to be the case with prolific religious figures, the work tends to be examined as a whole rather than in the individual parts so it's rare to see anything covered in enough individual depth to justify separate articles. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:13, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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