Arabic proverbs or the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians

London, 1830. 296 p.
Languages: english/arabic.
Many of the proverbial sayings translated in this volume, were collected by Sheref ed chjn Ihn Asacl, a native of Cairo, who lived, it is said, early in the last century, but never acquired a very high literary reputation. The translator found those Proverbs written upon nme or ten leaves in the common-place book of a sheikh, mth whom he was acquainted in this city; but they wanted explanation or commentary. Of those he has omitted a considerable number, many being altogether uninteresting, and others so grossly indehcate that he could, not venture to lay them before the ubhc, although it must be acknowledged that they excelled in wit. Several sayings which appear to have been popular in the time of Ibn Asad, are no longer current; and these the translator has marked with an asterisk.