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Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume I: The Nasihat al-muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature EUP)
Counsel for Kings Wisdom and Politics in TenthCentury Iran Volume I The Nasihat almuluk of PseudoMawardi Contexts and Themes - Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature EUP
Author: Louise Marlow
Mirrors 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 reminded of the contingency of his power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this book wrote in a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780748696901
ISBN-10: 0748696903
Publication Date: 5/1/2016
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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