Risala

Risala or risalah or risalat, also spelled resala/resalah/resalat, plural rasa'il, is an Arabic word (رِسالة) meaning "letter", "epistle", "treatise", or "message". It may refer to:

Literary genre

Risalah (fiqh), a summary of religious prescriptions in Islamic jurisprudence
Risalah Ramadaniyya, treatise composed during the month of Ramadan by the Da'i al-Mutlaq (spiritual leader) in Tayyibi Isma'ilism

Writings

Risalat al-Huquq or Treatise of Rights, a work attributed to the Shi'ite Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (c. 659 – c. 713)
Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah or The Golden Treatise, a work on medicine attributed to the Shi'ite Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida (765–818)
Al-Risala (al-Shafiʽi book), a seminal work on fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) by Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 820)
Risala, a travelogue by Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th century)
Al-Risalah (Ibn Abi Zayd), a book on Maliki fiqh by Ibn Abi Zayd (10th century)
Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa or the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, an encyclopedic collection of philosophical treatises (10th century)
Risalat al-Ghufran or The Epistle of Forgiveness, a satirical work of Arabic poetry written by Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri around 1033
Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya, a Sufi text by al-Qushayri (11th century)
Rasa'il al-Hikma or the Epistles of Wisdom, a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters in Druze tradition (11th century)
Risālat Fādil ibn Nātiq ("The Treatise of Fādil ibn Nātiq"), better known as Theologus Autodidactus, a theological novel written by Ibn al-Nafis between 1268 and 1277
Resaleh-ye haqiqat-nameh ("Treatise on Revealing the Truth"), an 1823 Persian-language work by Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, part of wider 19th-century eastern missionary activity
Risale-i Nur, a tafsir (exegesis of the Quran) by Said Nursî written between the 1910s and the 1950s

Media

Arrissalah, Arabic weekly cultural magazine for literature, science, and art, published in Cairo from 1933 to 1953
Al-Resalah Satellite TV, an Arabic Islamic television channel
al-Risala, the original-language title of the Arabic film The Message (1976 film)
Al-Risala, a defunct Hamas publication
Resalat (newspaper), a conservative daily newspaper in Iran
Risala Weekly, a weekly Islamic magazine published since 1983 in Kozhikode, India

Places

Ar-Risala, a populated place in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
Resālat, another name for Qaleh Khan, North Khorasan, a village in Iran
Resalat (district), a neighborhood located in the eastern part of Tehran, Iran
Resalat Expressway, the former name of Qasem Soleimani Expressway, an east-west expressway in Tehran, Iran
Risala Bazar or Risala Road, commercial area in Hyderabad, India

Organizations

Al-Resalah Party, a Jordanian political party
Resala Charity Organization, a non-profit organization based in Egypt