Hossein Nasr

These are texts written by the subject, distinct both from writings about the subject and from printed editions of other people's work. 5 works carry dates between 1993 and 2016. The 2000s are the densest part of the run, with 2 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. They belong to a run of 9 titles in all, from 1993 to 2016.

4 further works are catalogued under Nasr's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it.

These are primary documents. They carry the subject's own activity rather than a later account of it, which is why they are set before the rest of the archival material and not among it.

A further 63 rows were returned by the same open archives and are not shown here, because the only tie between them and this person was lexical: the name appeared in a title, a description or a series heading without the register stating any relation to Nasr. They are kept in the evidence layer and return the moment a relation is demonstrated. The register's own description is kept rather than reclassified, so a reader can see what each institution says it holds.

An authority file is a statement of identity, not a source of facts: it tells a reader that the Nasr named here is the same person the register catalogues, and it is what allows the material above to be gathered under one heading rather than several.