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Jawharat al-Tawhid (جوهرة التوحيد) is a popular didactic poem on the Ash'ari creed, consisting of one hundred and forty-four (144) verses, authored by the Egyptian Maliki scholar Ibrahim al-Laqqani (d. 1041/1631).

The poem is a creed summarizing the doctrines of the Ash'ari school of theology, a widely accepted rational framework of Sunni Islam that was endorsed in the Maliki school of law, which is dominant among Muslims in Upper Egypt and throughout Northwest Africa.

Content
The text deals with the divine aspects of creed, such as Allah's names, attributes, prophetology, and revealed creed (al-sam'iyyat), which includes faith in the afterlife. The text also adds additional details on the ranks of the companions and imams, and the five universal legal maxims in Islamic jurisprudence, the foundations of moral philosophy with a little bit of Sufism and etiquette.

Commentaries
Many scholars wrote commentaries and glossaries on this work, beginning with the author himself and his own son, 'Abd al-Salam b. Ibrahim al-Laqqani (d. 1078/1667).