Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
ابن المقفع
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
The secretary and translator Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, cited for a maxim condemning obstinacy as destructive of the mind's resolve.
Leave off obstinacy, for it breaks the resolutions of minds.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The early Abbasid prose writer, quoted with approval on the modest task of the later age: to take from the learning of the ancients, follow their conduct, and transmit by looking into their books.
How well Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ spoke when he said: