The MLT author quotes Ghazālī heavily but inverts him: Ghazālī’s “Book on the Etiquette of Teaching” focuses on the teacher’s virtue; MLT focuses on the teacher’s culpable vices. The PDF under study is a scan of MS Ayasofya 4853/2, folios 122b–189a. A digital copy surfaced on a now-defunct forum “al-Fikr al-Tarbawī” in 2017. The PDF metadata shows it was produced by a Lebanese amateur researcher, Nabīl al-Ḥājj, who added a modern introduction but no critical apparatus. Since 2019, the PDF has been shared on Telegram and Academia.edu as “thmyl mjm lwm altrbyt.pdf” – a transliteration by an unknown user who likely heard the title orally.
