📖 The Book of Virtues and Opposites by Al-Jahiz 📖

Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr Mahboob al-Kinani al-Laithi al-Basri, who is known as al-Jahiz

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In his style that is distinguished by rich, complex and easy-to-understand linguistic structures at the same time, Al-Jahiz collects in this book the virtues and defects of things. at the same time. All of this is found by the reader in the style of storytelling that was unique to “Al-Jahiz”, and in the way he divided it, he developed a new method that the writers followed after that. Thus, it is a book that contains distinguished linguistic creativity, historical anecdotes, imaginary anecdotes, and social situations presented in the best possible way, about the era in which the Arab genius “Al-Jahiz” lived.

The idea of ​​the book imposed the style on the writer, as the book consists of anecdotal quotations from ancient and modern events that Al-Jahiz used and formulated in a calm style full of vocabulary and structures to suit the judgment and lessons that fill the quotations. The use of the idea of ​​a thing and against it added some ease and simplicity to the book, because it made the features of the book clear, and also because it is a different idea from what readers are accustomed to in literature and other books.

The book contains approximately 36 pairs of virtues and opposites (i.e. 72 subjects) in addition to 4 subjects that contradict the rule of the book and are neither of the virtues nor of the disadvantages!, in addition to 4 virtues without opposites.

Author:
Abu Othman Amr bin Bahr bin Mahboub bin Fazara Al-Laithi Al-Kinani Al-Basri (159 AH - 255 AH) was an Arab writer who was one of the great imams of literature in the Abbasid era. With Al-Jahiz because of the protrusion of his eyes, he also worked as a beauty for Amr bin Qala’ Al-Kinani, and among his qualities was that he was sharp-witted, with steadfastness, rigor and the ability to speak, intuition and a good opinion. He was considered a role model for the originators and their imam in that era, just as Ibn al-Muqaffa was their imam in the first era.

❇️ Some reviews of Al-Jahiz's book, "The Merits and Opposites" ❇️

▪️Source of reviews: www.goodreads.com/book/show/7014240▪️

- One of the beauty of Al-Jahiz’s books is that it is distinguished by its rich language, and what increases its beauty is the good coordination and arrangement. He deposited in this book whatever he wanted to deposit of the good and bad of something, illustrating the morals, qualities, apparent differences, social customs, and multiple conflicts in the era in which he lived. He lived in it, in a rhythmic, sequential style par excellence, as if I were reading a poem
Kholoud Abdul Rahman

- A journey of linguistic richness, living among palaces, princes, and maidservants, and a refutation of adjectives, verbs, and forms on their merits and disadvantages, and a close refutation of them.
In all the attributes and their opposites that were enclosed in this book, Al-Jahah cited poetry, proverbs, wisdom, verses, hadiths, and biographies as much as he could to serve his idea and clarify his purposes. What the reader can discern from the book is the corruption of the lives of palaces and princes. And to what extent did people abandon religion and indulge in the distractions of life, thus ruining their situation and their religion?
Yomna Habashy

- One of the most beautiful books of literature, how not, and its author “Al-Jahiz” is the most well-known in the world of literature, eloquence, and rhetoric. Ibn Al-Ameed said about him: “Al-Jahiz’s books teach the mind first and literature second.” This book is a beautiful literary excursion between the virtues and opposites of things
Shorouq Al-Quwaiee

- A collection of Arab stories on several issues, beginning with books and ending with death
Abdelrahman Kasem

An interesting and linguistically rich book.
Arwa Al Shaheen

❇️ Some chapters from Al-Jahiz's Book of Virtues and Opposites ❇️

- The virtues of correspondence
- The virtues of the answer
- Pros of advice
The virtues of the states
The virtues of patriotism
- The virtues of cunning and tricks
- The virtues of foolishness
The virtues of death
- The virtues of writing and books
- The virtues of melody in language
- The virtues of keeping the tongue
- The virtues of honesty
The virtues of forgiveness
- The virtues of asceticism
- The virtues of women poets
- The pros and cons of the world
- The virtues of being patient with imprisonment
- The virtues of companionship
- The virtues of women's fulfillment
- Treachery of women
- The disadvantages of stinginess



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