Arabian Wisdom (Analecta Gorgiana)

✍ Scribed by John Wortabet

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 73
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Having lived for many years in Beirut, John Wortabet grew to know much about the Islamic world. Recognizing the wisdom and integrity of the people and religion of what was then known as Syria, Wortabet set about to preserve the essentials of Arabic wisdom in this little book. The wisdom saying, a literary form of ancient pedigree in this part of the world, is generally a brief but pointed statement of a truth distilled from careful observation. Wortabet here presents these saying arranged according to topic, with the goal of facilitating understanding between the wider world and those who live in what has become a very unsettled region.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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