section_path: Works/Ghurar al-hikam
section_name: Ghurar al-hikam
paragraph_text: Ghurar al-hikam
  
  Ghurar al-hikam wa durar al-kalim (lit. ' exalted aphorisms and pearls of speech ') was compiled by Abd al-Wahid al-Amidi (d. 1116), who was either a Shafi'i jurist or a Twelver scholar. The book contains thousands of short sayings of Ali on piety and ethics. These aphorisms and other works attributed to Ali have considerably influenced the Islamic mysticism.