Big literature and small literature

Ibn al -Muqafaa admits that he took his book from the sayings of the applicants, and he presented him with a precursor: "In the virtue of the ancients over the knowledge and the conditions of his lesson and the purpose of this book." And he divided it into two topics: the first in the Sultan and its accompaniment and what is beautiful in each of them, and in this topic the two chapters of the firs...