Counsel for Kings : : Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume I: The Nasihat al-muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes / / Louise Marlow.
A textual and contextual study of an early Arabic mirror for princesMirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly virtuous, will appreciate being re...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature : ESCAL
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on Transliteration and Dates
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I Situating the Text
- 1 An Early Samanid View of History: The Dating of Na‚īªat al-mulūk
- 2 A Liminal Setting: The Location of Na‚īªat al-mulūk
- Part II Governance and Society
- 3 Kingship and Governance: Concepts and Terminology
- 4 Intermediaries and Networks
- Part III The Religious Landscape
- 5 Multiplicity and Rhetoric
- 6 Religion and the Samanid Amirs
- 7 The Afflictions of the Kingdom and their Remedies
- 8 The Religious Sensibility of Nasihat al-mulūk
- Notes
- Index