The book "The Standard of choice in the Mention of Institutes and Diyar" by Ibn Al -Khatib is one of the funniest books of the author. Harra (mid -fourteenth AD). The traditional maqamah did not have the goal of itself from sorcery and begging as it is with the Hariri, Al -Hamdhani, and others, or preaching and reminding the hereafter and the reward and punishment as it is as it is with Zamakhshari and Damietta and their like The restrictions of Al -Sajj and Al -Muhasin Al -Badiiya, but his description of the countries in various aspects has come in an interesting form that beats life, and sparkle ingenuity.