The Exquisite in Every Pleasing Art
(المستطرف في كل فن مستظرف)

Title	The Exquisite in Every Pleasing Art
Title Original	المستطرف في كل فن مستظرف
Publication Place	- [publisher not identified]
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource.
Library:	Library of Congress
Library Asset ID	2021667342
Record ID	22057337
Sample Text	Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Mansur Bahaʼ al-Din Abu al-Fath al-Ibshihi was an Egyptian man of letters who was born in 1388 in the Egyptian village of Abshawayh, from which he took his nisba (in Arabic, the part of a name that indicates provenance). His fame rests on the high reputation of the book shown here, al-Mustaṭraf fī kull fann mustaẓraf (The exquisite in every pleasing art). Al-Ibshihi studied jurisprudence and grammar and memorized the Qur'an when he was ten. He frequented Cairo where he attended lessons by al-Bulqini. After the death of his father he became a preacher and dedicated himself to literature, which he loved. Al-Sakhawi notes that al-Ibshihi wrote another book on literature, Aṭwāq al-azhār ʻalá ṣudūr al-anhār (Necklaces of flowers on the chests of rivers), and began a book on the art of correspondence entitled Fī ṣanat al-tarassul wa-al-kitābah (On the trade of correspondence and writing). He also might have been the author of a manuscript entitled Tadhkirat al-ʻārifīn wa tabṣirat al-mustabṣirīn (The reminder for the aware and the guidance for the shrewd). Al-Ibshihi writes at the beginning of al-Mustaṭraf that he compiled in his book every art in which "striving scholars write volumes." These arts include aphorisms, literature, histories, anecdotes, information, stories, witticisms, and fine poetry. He notes that he took as examples verses from the Qur'an and the authenticated hadith. He wove in fine stories about saints, borrowing material from other books, such as Rabīʻ al-abrār (The spring of the devotees) by al-Zamakhshari, and al-ʻIqd al-farīd (The pecular necklace) by Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih. The manuscript is divided into 84 chapters discussing various topics in religion, morality, nature, poetry, and human life in all its aspects.
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The Exquisite in Every Pleasing Art

(المستطرف في كل فن مستظرف)

Publication Place - [publisher not identified]

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource.

Library Library of Congress

Library Asset ID 2021667342

Record ID 22057337

Sample Text Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Mansur Bahaʼ al-Din Abu al-Fath al-Ibshihi was an Egyptian man of letters who was born in 1388 in the Egyptian village of Abshawayh, from which he took his nisba (in Arabic, the part of a name that indicates provenance). His fame rests on the high reputation of the book shown here, al-Mustaṭraf fī kull fann mustaẓraf (The exquisite in every pleasing art). Al-Ibshihi studied jurisprudence and grammar and memorized the Qur'an when he was ten. He frequented Cairo where he attended lessons by al-Bulqini. After the death of his father he became a preacher and dedicated himself to literature, which he loved. Al-Sakhawi notes that al-Ibshihi wrote another book on literature, Aṭwāq al-azhār ʻalá ṣudūr al-anhār (Necklaces of flowers on the chests of rivers), and began a book on the art of correspondence entitled Fī ṣanat al-tarassul wa-al-kitābah (On the trade of correspondence and writing). He also might have been the author of a manuscript entitled Tadhkirat al-ʻārifīn wa tabṣirat al-mustabṣirīn (The reminder for the aware and the guidance for the shrewd). Al-Ibshihi writes at the beginning of al-Mustaṭraf that he compiled in his book every art in which "striving scholars write volumes." These arts include aphorisms, literature, histories, anecdotes, information, stories, witticisms, and fine poetry. He notes that he took as examples verses from the Qur'an and the authenticated hadith. He wove in fine stories about saints, borrowing material from other books, such as Rabīʻ al-abrār (The spring of the devotees) by al-Zamakhshari, and al-ʻIqd al-farīd (The pecular necklace) by Ibn ʻAbd Rabbih. The manuscript is divided into 84 chapters discussing various topics in religion, morality, nature, poetry, and human life in all its aspects.

Sınıflandırma 892

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