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The end of culture in the arts of literature
نهاية الأرب في فنون الأدب
Author: أحمد بن عبد الوهاب بن محمد بن عبد الدائم القرشي التيمي البكري، شهاب الدين النويري (المتوفى: 733هـ) (d. 733)
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نِهاية الأَرَب في فُنُون الأَدَب هو موسوعة أدبية أنجزها المؤرخ المصري شهاب الدين النويري قبل عام 721 هـ. جمع فيه النويري خلاصة التراث العربي في شقَّيه، الأدب والتاريخ، ويقع الكتاب في ثلاث وثلاثين مجلدة تضم نيفًا وأربعة آلاف وأربعمائة صفحة، وكان كما ذكر ابن كثير ينسخه بيده ويبيع منه النسخة بألف درهم. …
Translation
Nihayat al-Arb fi Funun al-Adab is a literary encyclopedia completed by the Egyptian historian Shihab al-Din al-Nuwairi before the year 721 AH. In it, Al-Nuwairi collected a summary of the Arab heritage in its two parts, literature and history. The book consists of thirty-three volumes containing more than four thousand and four hundred pages. As Ibn Katheer mentioned, he used to copy it with his own hand and sell the copy for a thousand dirhams. …
Topics covered
- Introduction to the book
- The first section is about the sky and what is in it, and it has five sections:
- The first chapter of the first section of the first art
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three of the First Section of the First Art
- Chapter Four of the First Section of the First Art
- Chapter Five of the First Section of the First Art
- The first chapter of the second section of the first art
- The second chapter of the second section of the first art
- In meteors, lightning bolts, thunder, lightning, and rainbows
- proverb
- As for its arrangement in its brightness
- Proverb:
- Mention what was said in describing thunder and lightning
- Mention what was said in its description and simile
- Chapter Three of the Second Section of the First Art
- Chapter Four of the Second Section of the First Art
- It is described in prose.
- Chapter one of this section
- season
- The third chapter of the third section of the first art
- Mention what was said in describing the summer season and its analogy, in verse and prose
- Chapter Four of the Third Section of the First Art
- The first chapter of this section 1 - On the principle of the creation of the earth
- The second chapter of the fourth section of the first art
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نور الطرف ونور الظرف