Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume I: The Nasihat Al-Muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes by Louise Marlow

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

Louise Marlow

360 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary philosophy religion medium-paced
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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 c...

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