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Advice for the sultan : prophetic voices and secular politics in medieval Islam / Neguin Yavari.
Van Pelt - Stapleton Seminar Room (523) BP173.7 .Y38 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yavari, Neguin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and politics--History--To 1500.
- Islam and politics.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 197 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hurst & Company, 2014.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The political lexicon of advice literature
- Metaphysics of good rule in the Kalila wa Dimna
- Secrets and veils as narrative strategies in advice literature
- Reason, the wheel of fortune and the 'Advent' of secular political thought
- Alterity and advice
- Words of counsel and lives of counsellors
- On mirrors and contexts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1849042608
- 9781849042604
- OCLC:
- 892578002
- Publisher Number:
- 99960202669
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