🔤Literature & Rhetoric
The joys of thought and approaches to lessons
مباهج الفكر ومناهج العبر
Author: أبو إسحق برهان الدين محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحيى بن علي المعروف بالوطواط (المتوفى: 718هـ) (d. 718)
About this work
هذا الكتاب يتناول موضوعات الأدب والبلاغة من خلال دراسة الإنسان والحيوان، حيث يركز الباب الأول على شرح خصائص الإنسان وشرفهم، بينما ينتقل الباب الثاني لمناقشة طبائع الحيوانات ذوات الناب والظفر. يهدف المؤلف إلى تقديم معلومات عامة عن أخلاق وطباع الحيوانات المختلفة دون الخوض في التفاصيل الطبية أو التشريحية التي تعتبر موضوعات لكتب أخرى متخصصة.
Translation
This book deals with the topics of literature and rhetoric through the study of humans and animals. The first chapter focuses on explaining the characteristics of humans and their honor, while the second chapter moves on to discuss the natures of animals with fangs and nails. The author aims to provide general information about the morals and character of various animals without going into medical or anatomical details that are considered topics for other specialized books.
Topics covered
- May God ease and help
- My success is only in God, in whom I trust
- Chapter one
- It is a statement that explains the honor of man over all other creatures
- Saying about the principle of human creation
- season
- Man was created in four folds
- Saying about the thing entrusted to human management
- They said that the animal is divided by the first division into three parts
- Saying what distinguished man in terms of synthesis and composition
- The reason for the difference in human morals
- Chapter Two
- In mentioning the natures of the one with the fang and nail
- Saying about the nature of the lion
- Description and simile
- Saying about the nature of the tiger
- Saying about the nature of the tiger
- Saying about the nature of the cheetah
- Saying about the nature of the dog
- In a chapter on the characteristics of the Saluki dog
- Saying about the nature of the wolf
- Saying about the nature of the hyena
- Saying about the nature of the pig
- Saying about the nature of the bear
- Saying about the nature of deception
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