“…This book is devoted to the inventory and analysis of šī‘ite poetic works up to the third century of the Hegira. The work of our colleague Taïeb El-Achèche is the fruit of a long and patient research on the “minor” šī`ite poets, so called because the authors of anthologies disdained them or because the census takers did not judge them. worthy of having a dīwān in their name, either because their poetic gifts were too modest, or their verses too scattered in the general works of adab and heresiography, in historical chronicles or in the biographical sums devoted to a certain doctrine, such legal school or branch of knowledge. …”

“…Among the themes addressed in this book published in his homage, literature comes first: "Leazal or courtly poetry in Arab literature", "Views on narrative literature in Arabic in the first century of the Hegira", "A secret garden: Arab poetry ”... etc. But pride of place is also given to Koranic studies and to the evolution of sciences in the Arab world: "The speech of Mahomet during the Farewell Pilgrimage", "Note on the nafs substantive" vital breath "," soul " in the Qur'an, "" Some thoughts on the forms of encyclopaedic Egypt and Syria the eighth / fourteenth century to the end of the IX/XVth century…”