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[A collection of 18 pieces, viz. :(1) al-Amthāl al-sāʾirah, a collection of proverbs by al-Qāsim ibn Sallām ; (2) al-Durr al-munaẓẓam, religious precepts and advice ; (3) a collection of anecdotes and select passages from various poets ; (4) a short treatise on the origin of the study of Arabic philology, by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī ; (5) a tract on Arabic orthography, by the same ; (6) Tanbīh al-nāʾim al-ghamr, a description of the various stages of life, by Jamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Jauzī ; (7) Raṣf al-laʾāli, a poetical anthology of passages in praise of the new moon, by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī ; (8) Zahr al-rabīʿ, a collection of proverbs and apophthegms in verse, by al-Nawājī ; (9) Nathr al-laʾāli, the proverbs of the Caliph ʿAlī ; (10) al-Nuzhah al-sanīyah, a chronology of the Caliphs and of the rulers of Egypt down to A.H. 926, by al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭūlūnī ; (11) al-Risālah al-ḥātimīyah, a collection of parallel passages from the Dīwān of al-Mutanabbi and the works of Aristotle, by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥātimī ; (12) Bughyat al-bāḥith, a metrical compendium of the Muhammadan law of inheritance, by Ibn al-Mutqinah ; (13) al-Risālah fī taqallub al-zamān, on the changing of time and of friends, by ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ ibn Khiḍr ; (14) tales and anecdotes ; (15) a collection of enigmas by different poets ; (16) a short treatise on the superiority of the rhetoric of the Arabs over that of all other nations, by Abu Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī ; (17) al-Amr al-muḥkam al-marbūṭ, rules of asceticism, by Muḥyi al-Dīn ibn al-ʿArabī ; (18) Kitāb man ghāb ʿanhu al-muṭarrib, an anthology, by Abu Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī.].
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Electronic reproduction. Andover, Hants. UK : Cengage Learning, 2015-2017 (Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library, 1473-1900). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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