Amthāl al-ʿArab
By: Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad al-Ḍabbī
Contributors: Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī, -1299?
Series: Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library
Publisher: [Maṭbaʿat al-Jawāʾib]
Published: 1884
Place of publication: Qusṭanṭīnīyah
Language: ara
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Arabic Proverbs; Philosophers; Anecdotes; Philosophy; Quotations, maxims
Other titles: Amthāl al-ʿArab lil-Mufaḍḍal al-Ḍabbī wa-yalīhā Asrār al-ḥukamā’ min qabīl al-naṣīḥah wa-al-taṣawwuf li-Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī (al-Amthāl al-ḥikmīyah min kalām baʿḍ mashāhīr al-falāsifah al-awwalīn); Amthāl al-ḥikmīyah min kalām baʿḍ mashāḥīr al-falāsifah al-awwalīn.
Description: [A collection of the proverbs of the Arabs. Followed by a collection of select sayings and anecdotes of illustrious personages entitled Asrār al-ḥukamā, compiled by Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī, to which is appended an anonymous collection of sayings of the ancient Philosophers entitled al-Amthāl al-ḥikmīyah.].
Notes: Reproduction of the original from The British Library.

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