Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume II: The Naṣīḥat Al-Mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī Texts,

Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume II: The Naṣīḥat Al-Mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī Texts,

Marlow, L.

Paperback

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismIslam

ISBN10: 1474426425
ISBN13: 9781474426428
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2017
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 distinctive early tenth-century Iranian environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time and place.

Also in

Philosophy

View All