Risala

Risala (رِسالة, risalah, risalat, resalah etc.) is the Arabic word for "shipment" or "message". Ar-Risala (الرسالة) is "the message."

It may refer to:

Literature

• Risalah (fiqh), a summary of religious prescriptions in Islamic jurisprudence
  • Al-Risala (book) by Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi'i
• Other books known by the shorthand "(ar-)Risala"
  • Risala, a tenth-century travelogue by Ahmad ibn Fadlan
  • Risala fiqhiya, a tenth-century book of Maliki fiqh by Ibn Abi Zayd
  • Rasa'il al-hikmah, a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters in Druze tradition
  • Risale-i Nur, a 20th-century tafsir (exegesis of the Quran) by Said Nursî
  • ar-Risala, a literary magazine edited by Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat published in Cairo
  • Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya, an 11th-century Sufi text by Al-Qushayri

Other

• The "message" of Allah to mankind revealed via "messengers"; see rasūl
• Risala, Mughal-era term for a cavalry unit commanded by a Risaldar
• Ar-Risala, a populated place in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
• Al-Resalah Satellite TV, an Arabic Islamic television channel
• The Message (1976 film), known in Arabic as Ar-Risalah
• Resala Charity Organization, a non-profit organization based in Egypt