The Book of Noble Character is an anthology of quotations suitable for social and literary discourse. The work is introduced by an analytical study discussing the attribution of the work, the related genres, and the unique manuscript of the text.

Bilal Orfali, Ph.D. (2009), Yale University, is Associate Professor of Arabic Studies at the American University of Beirut and the M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies at the Ohio State University. He is the editor of In the Shadow of Arabic, BRILL (2011), Sufism, Black and White, with Naada Saab, BRILL (2012) and The Comfort of the Mystics, with Gerhard Böwering, BRILL (2013)
Ramzi Baalbaki, PhD (1978), University of London, is the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut. He is also the Chair of the Academic Council of the Doha Arabic Historical Dictionary project. He has published extensively both in English and Arabic on the history of the Arabic grammatical and lexicographical traditions. He is the author of The Legacy of the, BRILL (2008) and The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition, BRILL (2014)