Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī
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the author · I · the author of al-Tanbīh · the compiler · الامام ابو اسحق · صاحب التنبيه
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Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The composing voice of the treatise, who compiles, dedicates, arranges and prays.
I have arranged this book, in epitome, in three parts, each part of them in two chapters:
In it I have gathered the choicest sayings of the sages on the noble traits of character and their brightest blazes, and the scattered gold of the maxims of the excellent on the beauties of good conduct and their pearls;
( Part One ) on the universal principles of the science of character (ʻilm al-akhlāq) ( Its First Chapter ) on its preliminaries and its first principles ( The Second Chapter ) on its objects of inquiry and its aims ( Part Two ) on the particular branches of the beauties of character ( Its First Chapter ) on the counsels of the sages and the rules of conduct profitable in every department ( The Se …
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Shāfiʻī jurist and author of al-Tanbīh, held up as a recent instance of the old kind of scholar who worshipped through his learning and lived on nothing.
or had you a trade, you would resemble the scholars of old, who never set eyes on colleges and never heard of endowed posts, who fled when they were sought for the judgeship, who made worship of their learning and gave it freely to men, and were content with a coarse garment and a crust — as the imam Abū Isḥāq, the author of al-Tanbīh, was not long ago, and as the shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn, the author o …