Arbaʿ rasāʼil muntakhabah min muʼallafāt al-Imām al-Thaʻālibī

[Selections from four of the works of al-Thaʿālibī, namely : (1) from a collection of proverbs, verses and sayings of illustrious and learned persons, entitled al-Tamthīl wa-al-muḥāḍarah ; (2) from a collection of moral sentences in rhymed prose, entitled al-Mubhij ; (3) from an anthology of passages in prose and verse, arranged according to subject, entitled Siḥr al-balāghat ; and (4) from a work on metonymics, entitled al-Nihāyah fi-al-kināyah.].