The library of Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī

1. The Qurʼan God 5 authority 5 citations

   Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq

   ch. 1 · ch. 2 · ch. 6

   5 citations

   He is tender toward His servants, and He is my sufficiency and the best of trustees.

2. Aristotle 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq

   ch. 2 · ch. 5

   2 citations

   Arisṭū and those who followed him held that this endures so long as one keeps to the use of the means, which are the virtues confined between the extremes.

3. Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī 1 extended 1 citation

   Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq

   ch. 2

   1 citation

   [24] ( 1 ) His words, 'because both extremes of justice,' and so forth.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq

Rare sayings that pass current as proverbs · A divine address in the first person on the world, death and the reckoning · A divine address to Mūsá on the wealth of the poor and orphans · A homiletic series addressed to the son of Ādam · A lexical definition of conceit as exceeding the measure of one's refinement · A maxim on bearing with the bad neighbour · A maxim on books as the containers of wisdom · A maxim on losing the roots · A maxim on magnifying one's worth by overlooking base affairs · A maxim on revering superiors and being gentle with inferiors · A maxim on the best of kings, whom the innocent trusts and the suspect fears · A maxim on the blameworthiness of both extremes of the middle course · A maxim on the false brother, the false scholar and the false ascetic · A maxim on the five traits the man who hates disgrace must shun · A maxim on the happy man · A maxim on the ignorant man's dominion and the intelligent man's · A maxim that he who takes counsel is fortified and he who acts alone errs · A maxim that the man who reflects hits the mark and the man who hurries misses it · A sage's answer on what gladness is · A sage's answer on why he gathers money · A sage's enumeration of the best and ugliest traits of kings · A saying on the dullard reared among the learned and the clever man reared among the ignorant · An unattributed hemistich that judgement comes before the courage of the courageous · An unattributed panegyric verse on the vizier · An unattributed verse on anarchy and chieftains · An unattributed verse on the spark and the fire · Another sage's warning against making diversion attractive to a king · Aphorisms closing the second part, on brothers, hardship, judgement and the noble man · Arabic lexical usage of the verb for keeping to the middle · Marginal gloss on 'the learned' (printed note, page 49) · Marginal gloss on al-balam (printed note, page 39) · Marginal gloss on al-khibb (printed note, page 50) · Marginal gloss on al-nashz (printed note, page 67) · Marginal gloss on al-nifāq (printed note, page 64) · Marginal gloss on al-tharāʼ (printed note, page 67) · Maxims of the excellent on the beauties of conduct · Sayings of the sages on the noble traits of character · The Qurʼanic invocation of the divine name (basmalah) · The Qurʼanic phrase that above every man of knowledge there is one who knows more · The books of wisdom (kutub al-ḥikmah) · The canons of the medicine of bodies · The counsels of the sages (naṣāʼiḥ al-ḥukamāʼ) · The demonstrations of the sages on the wretchedness of wicked souls after death · The divine revealed laws set forth by the prophets · The doctrine of the Hour and the reckoning of the return · The earlier scriptures, the scriptures of Ibrāhīm and Mūsá · The lexical derivation of the epithet for the God-devoted · The prophets' reports of the chastisement awaiting the wicked · The reports of the kings of ages past · The revealed Books and the mission of the Messengers · The rule of the revealed law on purification with dust · The rules of the science of character laid down by the caliphs, the friends of God and the God-devoted sages · The rulings of the true Law (sharīʻah) · The sage's definition of the man with the best claim to kingship · The saying of Ardashīr ibn Abak on Satan and the hour of anger · The saying that God is one and loves the one alone · The sayings of the sages on the debauchee, the wrathful and the glutton · The science of the refinement of character, also called spiritual medicine · The statutory law laid down by men of discernment · The transmitted rule that a judge shall not judge while angry · Verses of admonition · Waṣīyat Luqmān li-ibnihi (the counsel of Luqmān to his son) · Waṣīyat al-Furs (the counsel of the Persians)

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Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī 1 citation · al-Dhahabī 1 citation

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1. Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī 1 extended 1 citation

   ch. 2

   The note quotes the main text as its object and elaborates it, which is a citation of the work by its annotator.

   [24] ( 1 ) His words, 'because both extremes of justice,' and so forth.

2. Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab al-Dhahabī 1 neutral 1 citation

   the shāfiʻīs

   The book is invoked only as the identifying epithet صاحب التنبيه.

   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 …