The Crown Book on the Ethics of Kings

The book "Kitab al-Taj by Al-Jahiz" you hold in your hands contains chapters that discuss kings and their conditions in some detail. From mentioning their companions and their dining habits, to listing the qualities of companions and what the subjects owe to kings in terms of good manners, in both jest and seriousness, to reviewing various types of conversations and rare anecdotes, Al-Jahiz, the unique writer, draws from the accounts of historians and narrators, moving between the temperaments of kings and their peoples, across different lands, commenting on each account with his own style and meticulous analysis, which directly painted a picture of societies in his time within a unique literary framework.

Al-Jahiz extensively discussed the kings from the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs and the qualities that distinguished each of them, to the extent that the book can be described as a comprehensive history of the news of the Umayyad and Abbasid states, and the anecdotes, stories, and narratives that surround that news. As in all of Al-Jahiz's works, the book is characterized by its linguistic brilliance, its precise structure, and its careful choice of words, making it an immortal literary work that preserves the brilliance of the Arabic language and presents a dazzling image of Arabic literature through one of its creative masterpieces.

• Category: Arabic Novels

• Number of pages: 301 pages