Lata?if al-amthal wa-tara?if al-aqwal

Born into a family that traced its origins to caliph ?Umar b. al-Khattab (d. 23/644), Rashid al-Din Watwat (d. 578/1182) was a graduate of the Nizamiyya academy in his hometown of Balkh, where he had received a solid grounding in Arabic language and literature. Bi-lingual in Persian and Arabic and an accomplished writer of poetry and prose, he spent the greater part of his active life in Gurganj, ...