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Do the book.
أدب الكتاب
Author: أبو بكر محمد بن يحى الصولي (المتوفى: 335هـ) (d. 335)
About this work
أدب الكتاب: ومن الناس من يقول: «أدب الكاتب». ألفه الصولي زمن الراضي بالله كما يفهم مما كتبه في باب «ما يتكاتب به الناس اليوم». قال في المقدمة: «هذا الكتاب ألفناه فيما يحتاج إليه أعلى الكتاب درجة، وأقلهم فيه منزلة. وجعله جامعاً لكل ما يحتاج الكاتب إليه، حتى لا يعول في جميعه إلا عليه».
Translation
The literature of the book: Some people say: “The literature of the writer.” It was written by Al-Suly at the time of Al-Radi Billah, as can be understood from what he wrote in the chapter “What People Write About Today.” He said in the introduction: “We have written this book according to what is needed by the highest-ranking writers and the lowest-ranking among them. He made it comprehensive of everything the writer needed, so that he could rely on no one but him for all of it.
Topics covered
- Literature of the Book by Al-Souli
- He preferred writing
- What was narrated by the first person to write the book in Arabic
- The origin and beginning of the book In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
- How do they begin their words so that He may bless them for what they attempt and be rewarded for?
- Deleting the alif from Bismillah and what was mentioned about deleting the sīn
- The drawings of the writers in their writing In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
- As for what comes next
- Exporting books and what is contained in them
- Calligraphy essay
- What was said about the good handwriting of the system
- What was said about the ugliness of the handwriting
- What was said about the points, the shape, and the precise line
- The letters that poets likened to
- What was mentioned in the description of the pen from prose words
- Mention what was said in the pen of poetry
- What was said about the pen and its sharpness
- It is described in the book
- What was said in the medicine
- Threading the pen
- Al-Karsafa and what was said about it
- What was said in the ink
- Ink and its derivation
- Paper and what is written on it
- Never the pen
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