الدولة الفاطمية
The Arabic original is known as "Mukhtār al-ḥikam wa-maḥāsin al-kalim" ('Compendium of Maxims and Aphorisms'), and was written toward the middle of the eleventh century by a Syrian-born emir of the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt, Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik.