Al-Thaʽālibī

Works

• Kitāb Yatīmat al-dahr fī mahāsin ahl al-ʿasṛ; is his best known work and contains valuable extracts from the poetry of his own and earlier times, arranged according to the poets' nationality. No satisfactory edition exists. That Yatīmat and its sequel the Tatimmat have been characterised as 'our main, if not the sole, source about literary activity' in al-Tha'ālibī's time.
• * ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʿālibī, Yatīmat al-dahr fī shuʿarāʼ ahl al-ʿaṣr, 4 vols, , , , . The most widely used edition, with a Persian interlinear translation.
• * Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd محمد محي الدين عبدالحميد, يتيمة الدهر في في محاسن أهلالعصر, 4 vols, , , , . Bilāl Urfahʹlī concludes that this is the most accurate edition, and 'offers a preliminary basis of studying the Yātima, even if some points will have to be changed according to what a critical edition might reveal'.
• * ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī, Yatīmat al-dahr fī maḥāsin ahl al-ʻaṣr maʻ al-tatimma wa-l-fahāris, ed. by Mufīd Muḥammad Qumayḥah, 6 vols, vols 1-4. .
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• Tatimmat al-Yatīmah, a sequel to the Yatāmat al-dahr.
• * The best edition is Ahmad Shawqi Radwan, .
• * The most widely available edition, prior to the digitisation of Radwan's edition, was ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī, ', in Yatīmat al-dahr fī maḥāsin ahl al-ʻaṣr maʻ al-tatimma wa-l-fahāris, ed. by Mufīd Muḥammad Qumayḥah, 6 vols, vol. 5. .
• Kitāb Fiqh ul-Lugha; lexicographical dictionary arranged by semantic subject.,,.
• Zād safar al-mulūk
• *', ed. by Ramzi Baalbaki and Bilal Orfali, Bibliotheca Islamica, 52,.
• Makārim al-akhlāq wa-maḥāsin al-ādāb wa-badāʾiʿ al-awṣāf wa-gharāʾib al-tashbīhāt
• *, ed. by Bilal Orfali and Ramzi Baalbaki, Islamic History and Civilisation: Studies and Texts, 120,.
• Kitāb Lata'if al-ma'arif.
• Kitāb al-Kināya wa-l-taʿrīd aw al-Nihāya fī fann al-kināya''.