Jamal al-Din Abul-Faraj Abd al-Rahman b. Ali, popularly known as Ibn alJauzi, 510 AH - 599 AH (AD 1116-AD1200) was the author of a vast number of works-theological, historical, biographical, medical, philological, and entertaining-of which several have been printed in recent times. He was famous as a preacher and the traveler Ibn Jubair gives an enthusiastic account of two of his sermons heard in Baghdad. The work of which a translations is here offered is ...