Gawahir al-Akhbar wa-Mulah al-Ashar, Gems of the Tales and Anecdotes of poetry, by Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Aqama Al-Yamani, contains tales from the pre-Islamic, early Islamic, and Abbasid periods. Being divided into two parts, the work contains 100 stories and 429 poems. At the end, the author added another twenty aphorisms and proverbs. However, it is not limited to literary tales alone, but also addresses theological, jurisprudential, and linguistic topics. For all narrations, the chains of transmission are given. This is the first book of its kind from Islamic Yemen.

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