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Author ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661.

Title A treasury of virtues : sayings, sermons and teachings of ʻAlī al-Qāḍī al-Quḍā'ī : with the one hundred proverbs attributed to al-Jāhiẓ / edited and translated by Tahera Qutbuddin
Published New York : New York University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Library of Arabic literature
Library of Arabic literature.
Contents A Treasury of Virtues. Wise Sayings ; Censure of this World and Exhortations to Reject Worldliness ; Counsel ; Prescriptions and Proscriptions ; ʿAlī's Questions with Answers, and ʿAlī's Answers to Questions ; Sayings with Unusual Words ; Unique Sayings and Pithy Words ; Prayers and Supplications ; Verse -- One Hundred Proverbs
Summary This book is a collection by the Fatimid Shafi'i judge al-Quda'i (d. 454 H/1062 AD) of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40 H/661 AD). 'Ali was the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph. An acknowledged master of Arabic eloquence and a sage of Islamic wisdom, Ali was renowned for his words, which were collected, quoted, and studied over the centuries, and extensively anthologized, excerpted, and interpreted. Included here are aphorisms, proverbs, sermons, speeches, homilies, prayers, letters, dialogues, and verse, all of which provide instruction on how to be a morally upstanding human being
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Arabic and English on facing pages
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Subject ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661 -- Hadith
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
Hadith (Shiites) -- Texts.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Middle Eastern.
Hadith
Hadith (Shiites)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Texts
Form Electronic book
Author Qutbuddin, Tahera
Jāḥiẓ, -868 or 869.
Quḍāʻī, Muḥammad ibn Salāmah, -1062.
ISBN 0814729258
9780814729250
9780814771853
0814771858
Other Titles Works. Selections. English. 2013