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Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic
John Wortabet
Patience, generosity, the tongue that wounds and the friend who heals: Arabic literature has weighed them all. John Wortabet translated his favorite selections into brief chapters on forgiving others, forbearance, humility, true nobility and self-respect, published in London in 1916 and dedicated to his children. Centuries of desert-tested counsel in an afternoon of reading. Let the old sayings argue their case.
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73 chapters
- 1ARABIAN WISDOM
- 2SELECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ARABIC
- 3LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1916
- 4TO MY CHILDREN
- 5CONTENTS
- 6INTRODUCTION THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE KORAN REPENTANCE A SINNER'S CRY UNTO GOD FORGIVING OTHERS FORBEARANCE HUMILITY TRUE NOBILITY SELF-RESPECT CHARACTER BENEVOLENCE GENEROSITY GRATITUDE RECOMPENSE FLAUNTING KINDNESS KNOWLEDGE SPECULATIVE STUDIES THOUGHTS, DOUBTS WISDOM IGNORANCE, FOLLY CONSULTATION SPEAKING, WRITING, BOOKS SILENCE TRUTHFULNESS TRUTHFULNESS TO PROMISES TRUTHFULNESS TO SECRETS DECEIT EXERTION OPPORTUNITIES ECONOMY VICISSITUDES OF FORTUNE PATIENCE CONTENTMENT CHEERFULNESS WAR ANGER HATRED, MALICE MURDER ENVY RASHNESS LAZINESS AVARICE COMPLAINT, BLAME MARRIAGE CHILDREN FILIAL DUTY BROTHERS FRIENDS NEIGHBOURS SALUTATION LOVE OF COUNTRY AND HOME TRAVELLING HEALTH YOUTH AND OLD AGE DEATH APPENDIX
- 7EDITORIAL NOTE
- 8INTRODUCTION
- 9THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE KORAN
- 10REPENTANCE, AND GOD'S FORGIVING MERCY
- 11A SINNER'S CRY UNTO GOD[2]
- 12FORGIVING OTHERS
- 13CLEMENCY, FORBEARANCE, AND GENTLENESS
- 14HUMILITY
- 15TRUE NOBILITY
- 16SELF-RESPECT, AND THE SENSE OF SHAME
- 17CHARACTER
- 18BENEVOLENCE
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