Del i serien Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran

Volume I: The Nasihat al-muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvL. Marlow,Louise Marlow,L. Marlow

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This book studies the Counsel for Kings as an illuminating commentary on the milieu and polity in which it was written and as a composition that seeks to persuade by drawing allusions between the diverse repertoire of wisdom literature available to the author and his audience and the circumstances of the author s time and place.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-08-01
Mått155 x 231 x 23 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature
Antal sidor360
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474426411

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Preface; Notes on Transliteration and Dates; Glossary; Introduction; Part I: Situating the Text; Map 1: The Nile-to-Oxus Region in the Tenth Century; Chapter 1. An Early Samanid View of History: The Dating of Naṣīḥat al-mulūk; Map 2: The Oxus Regions in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries 85; Chapter 2. A Liminal Setting: The Location of Naṣīḥat al-mulūk; Part II: Governance and Society; Chapter 3. Kingship and Governance: Concepts and Terminology; Chapter 4. Intermediaries and Networks; Part III: The Religious Landscape; Chapter 5. Multiplicity and Rhetoric; Chapter 6. Religion and the Samanid Amirs; Chapter 7. The Afflictions of the Kingdom and Their Remedies; Chapter 8. The Religious Sensibility of Naṣīḥat al-mulūk; Fig. 1: The Samanids; Fig. 2: The Samanid Dynastic Family; Notes.