Contributions

  • Jāḥiẓ, -868 or 869 - Contributor
  • Raqqī, Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad, 1249 or 1250-1303 or 1304 - Contributor
  • Mufaḍḍal ibn Salamah, -approximately 903 - Contributor

Publication

1884 - Maṭbaʿat al-Jawāʾib, Qusṭanṭīnīyah, Turkey

Language

Arabic

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

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Alternate Titles

  • Bard al-akbād fī al-aʿdād.
  • Khams rasā'il - al-Ījāz wa-al-iʿjāz lil-Imām al-Thaʿālibī, Bard al-akbād fī al-aʿdād lahu ayḍan, muntakhabāt al-Bayān wa-al-tabyīn lil-Imām al-Jāḥiẓ, Aḥāsin al-maḥāsin lil-Imām Abī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rukhkhajī, Ghāyat al-arab fī maʿānī mā yajrī ʿalá alsun al-ʿāmmah fī muḥāwarātihim wa-amthālihim min kalām al-ʿArab lil-Imām al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Salamah

Description

[A collection of five works, the first two by al-Thaʿālibī, the rest by different authors, namely: (1) al-Ījāz wa-al-iʿjāz, a collection of elegant and witty sayings by illustrious and learned persons ; (2) Bard al-akbād, an anthology in prose and verse of passages in which the numerals occur ; (3) elegant sayings, speeches and letters, selected from a work, entitled al-Bayān wa-al-tabyīn, by ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ ; (4) Aḥāsin al-maḥāsin, a collection of ethical sentences, by Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥusayn al-Rukhkhajī ; (5) Ghāyat al-arab, on the popular proverbs and colloquial expressions of the Arabs, by Mufaḍḍal ibn Salamah.].

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