دروس البلاغة
Durūs al-Balāgha
Rhetoric — why a sentence is arranged the way it is, and what is lost when you rearrange it. The science that makes the Qur’an’s style legible rather than merely translatable.
The text
Public domain — read it at a library
Internet Archive — the full text
An Egyptian ministry school text by Ḥifnī Nāṣif (d. 1919), Muḥammad Diyāb (d. 1921) and two colleagues whose dates we could not establish. Almost certainly public domain; we say “almost” because two of the four are unconfirmed.
In English — ours
Not yet. We translate rather than reprint, so the English for this book begins the day its first lesson is taught.
We link rather than mirror. The classical texts are out of copyright, but the modern printed editions of them are not, so we point you at a library that already carries one instead of putting somebody else’s edition on our server. What we do host is our own work.
Lessons
Not written yet. This book is on the map so you can see where it sits in the course, not because it is ready to study here.