Al-Risala (book)

or or , also spelled //, plural , is an Arabic word () meaning "letter", "epistle", "treatise", or "message".
It may refer to:

Literary genre

*, a summary of religious prescriptions in Islamic jurisprudence
*, treatise composed during the month of Ramadan by the Da'i al-Mutlaq (spiritual leader) in Tayyibi Isma'ilism

Writings

* or ''Treatise of Rights'', a work attributed to the Shi'ite Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Abidin ()
* or ''The Golden Treatise'', a work on medicine attributed to the Shi'ite Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida (765–818)
* (al-Shafiʽi book), a seminal work on (Islamic jurisprudence) by Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 820)
*, a travelogue by Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th century)
* (Ibn Abi Zayd), a book on Maliki by Ibn Abi Zayd (10th century)
* or the '' Epistles of the Brethren of Purity'', an encyclopedic collection of philosophical treatises (10th century)
* or ''The Epistle of Forgiveness'', a satirical work of Arabic poetry written by Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri around 1033
*, a Sufi text by al-Qushayri (11th century)
* or the '' Epistles of Wisdom'', a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters in Druze tradition (11th century)
* ("The Treatise of Fādil ibn Nātiq"), better known as ''Theologus Autodidactus'', a theological novel written by Ibn al-Nafis between 1268 and 1277
*, a (exegesis of the Quran) by Said Nursî written between the 1910s and the 1950s

Media

*, Arabic weekly cultural magazine for literature, science, and art, published in Cairo from 1933 to 1953
*Al-Resalah Satellite TV, an Arabic Islamic television channel
*, the original-language title of the Arabic film ''The Message'' (1976 film)
* (newspaper), a conservative daily newspaper in Iran
*'' Risala Weekly'', a weekly Islamic magazine published since 1983 in Kozhikode, India

Places

*Ar-Risala, a populated place in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
*Resālat, another name for Qaleh Khan, North Khorasan, a village in Iran
* Resalat (district), a neighborhood located in the eastern part of Tehran, Iran
*Resalat Expressway, the former name of Qasem Soleimani Expressway, an east-west expressway in Tehran, Iran
* Risala Bazar or Risala Road, commercial area in Hyderabad, India

Organizations

*Al-Resalah Party, a Jordanian political party
* Resala Charity Organization, a non-profit organization based in Egypt

See also

*The "message" of Allah to mankind revealed via "messengers"; see
*Risala, Mughal-era term for a cavalry unit commanded by a Risaldar in the Indian and Pakistan armies

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