Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran : Volume I: The Nasihat al-muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes

by L. Marlow , Louise Marlow

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature

ISBN-10 1474426417

ISBN-13 9781474426411

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 1st, 2017

Print length 360 Pages

Weight 548 grams

Dimensions 23.70 x 16.60 x 1.90 cms

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The first volume situates Counsel for Kings in its historical context. The second volume gives direct access to a substantial portion of the text through translation and commentary.

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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