Manly honour
idea · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
murūʼah · manliness · manly honour · the religion of manliness · المروءة · دين المروءة · مروءة · مروءته
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2 expressionsManliness“murūʼah”2 mentions
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq (Arabic) · Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi (Arabic)
Part of a man's manliness is the cleanness of his garment.
Murūʼah“manly honour”1 mention
Adab al-wazīr (Arabic)
Do not concern yourself with one who does not preserve manly honour (*murūʼah*), for you will seldom find any good in him, given his indifference to guarding his own person and his inclination toward obscurity of rank.
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
Murūʼah, manly honour or moral standing, named alongside religion as the good that any permitted jest must leave intact.
he diverts himself with of jest, a keeping guard over his religion and a safeguarding of his manly honour (murūʼah);
Do not concern yourself with one who does not preserve manly honour (*murūʼah*), for you will seldom find any good in him, given his indifference to guarding his own person and his inclination toward obscurity of rank.
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The virtue of full manhood, specified here by cleanliness of dress and reticence about one's troubles.
Part of a man's manliness is the cleanness of his garment.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
Murūʼah, the code of manly virtue, invoked as a binding obligation to answer a friend's request.
but since granting your proposal was a debt in the religion of manliness (murūʼah) and an obligation in the law of chivalry (futūwah), I have ventured upon these words.