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AssistantProfessor Department of History, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

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In the first decades of the 20th century, scholars like Vladimir Ivanow opened up new paths for researchers in this field by publishing the text of many Ismaili manuscripts for the first time. However, the wide and hasty publication of many of these texts without critical correction and precision of content has led us to find frequent errors in the content of some of these texts. The first serious consequence of this problem is the occurrence of frequent errors in the reconstruction of Ismaili history or even misconceptions in analyzing the historical content of these texts. In this article, the first publication of the treatise "Sirat al-Hajib" by Vladimir Ivanow in the fourth volume of the Egyptian journal koliat al-ādāb (1936), and Husam Khazour's narration of the text of this treatise in Syria in 2007, based on the only remaining copy of this historical treatise, as well as the remaining elements from it in other advanced Ismaili works, are subjected to scholarly criticism. The results of this investigation point to three types of historical, linguistic and contextual errors in the publication of these two researchers, which are discussed in this article. The research method in this article is comparative and the data collection is based on a library search.

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