\"Book of Proverbs of the Houses of Poetry\" By Hamzah al-Isfahani(893 or 4-970 or 71 CE) an early collection of Arabic proverbs, poetry, and quotations. Al-Isfahani was an Iranian historian, philologist, and lexicographer. He wrote in Arabic, and made use of Arabic sources and written and oral accounts. From / Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi