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خاص الخاص
Author: عبد الملك بن محمد بن إسماعيل أبو منصور الثعالبي (المتوفى: 429هـ) (d. 429)
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هذا الكتاب "خاص الخاص" من تأليف الثعالبي أبو منصور، يتناول مجالات متعددة من الأدب والبلاغة، مُركزًا على الإيجاز في الكلام وسحره، مع تقديم أمثلة من كلام الملوك والرؤساء وآراء الأدباء والنحويين والقراء والمحدثين. يُعنى الكتاب أيضًا باللطائف والغرائب التي تُعبر عن حكمة الظرفاء وعبقرية الصناع، مُقدمًا نماذج متنوعة من الخطاب الأدبي والفكري.
Translation
This book, “Khas al-Khas,” written by Al-Thaalabi Abu Mansour, deals with multiple fields of literature and rhetoric, focusing on brevity in speech and its magic, while providing examples from the words of kings and presidents and the opinions of writers, grammarians, readers, and hadith scholars. The book is also concerned with the cuteness and curiosities that express the wisdom of witty people and the genius of craftsmen, presenting various models of literary and intellectual discourse.
Topics covered
- Chapter Two: Proverbs of the Arabs, the Persians, the private and the common people
- Chapter Three
- A chapter in praise of some kings
- A chapter on the words of some presidents
- A similar chapter
- A chapter on counseling with a description of food, drink, and hearing
- Season of giving away drinks
- Chapter on Hassan Alif
- A chapter in the intensity of love
- Chapter on mentioning the boy of Al-Tahi
- A chapter on heaviness
- Chapter on slandering a servant
- Chapter on bad villages
- The fourth chapter is about Taif al-Zarifa, similar to what was mentioned at the beginning of the book
- A chapter in their kindness indeed
- A chapter on the kindness of kings and masters
- A chapter on the kindness of other nice people from all classes
- A chapter on cute people’s tastes in food and what is related to it
- season
- A chapter on the niceties of drinking and what is related to it
- A chapter on hearing and singers
- Dismissal of teachers
- Chapter on writers and grammarians
- Separating the leaves
- Separation of readers and hadith scholars
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