Amthal al-Qur'an

أمثال القرآن

Al-Mawardi's Amthal al-Qur'an — alongside versions by al-Sulami and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya 1.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Overview

"Amthal al-Quran" (The Parables of the Qur'an) by the Imam Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Mawardi the Shafi'i. 2

Hajji Khalifa notes that in the same field there are other books by Abu Abd al-Rahman Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami al-Nisaburi, and by Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. 2

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al-Mawardi

People and things also explored

The Shahanshah laqab controversy· Tughril Beg Seizes al-Rayy· Adab al-Dunya wal-Din· al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya by al-Mawardi· A'lam al-Nubuwwa· al-Mawardi

Sources

  1. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p. 606
  2. Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.) , p.606
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islam.museum contributors. “Amthal al-Qur'an”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/amthal-al-quran-mawardi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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The Shahanshah laqab controversy

In Ramadan 429 the laqabs 'Greatest Shahanshah, King of Kings' were proposed for Jalal al-Dawla and the caliph ordered the khutba with them; the crowd pelted the khatib with bricks and a fitna broke out. The jurists wrote opinions — al-Saymari and Abu'l-Tayyib al-Tabari permitting, al-Mawardi refusing — whereupon Jalal cut him off, then received him warmly on the feast day, telling him that only religion had moved him and that it had raised his standing in the king's heart.