Talkhis al-Miftah

Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ (Arabic: تلخيص المفتاح, romanized: The Digest of the Key) is a seminal 14th-century Arabic treatise on rhetoric (balāgha), authored by the renowned scholar Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d. 739 AH / 1338 CE). The work is an abridgment of the third section of al-Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʿUlūm, focusing exclusively on the rhetorical sciences. Al-Qazwīnī aimed to streamline al-Sakkākī's often difficult and complex exposition into a clearer, more pedagogical format. The text became one of the most influential manuals in the teaching of Arabic rhetoric throughout the post-classical Islamic world until modern times.