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Global medieval: mirrors for princes reconsidered

Global medieval: mirrors for princes reconsidered
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ISBN 0674088271 (softcover)
9780674088276 (softcover)
Title Global medieval : mirrors for princes reconsidered / edited by Regula Forster and Neguin Yavari
Publisher Boston : Ilex Foundation, Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2015
Physical desc. vi, 228 pages : 23 cm.
Series Ilex Foundation series 15
Note Distributed by Harvard University Press.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Neguin Yavari and Regula Forster -- Ibn Farīghūn's Jawāmi' al-'ulūm: between classification of sciences and mirror for princes / Hinrich Biesterfeldt -- Scholarly and intellectual authority in late medieval European mirrors / Charles F. Briggs -- Aetiologies of the Kalīla wa dimna as a mirror for princes / Olga M. Davidson -- Writing to a ruler, speaking to a ruler, negotiating the figure of the ruler: thoughts on 'monocratological' texts and their contexts in Greco-Roman antiquity / Matthias Haake -- Persian mirrors for princes: pre-Islamic and Islamic mirrors compared / Seyed Sadegh Haghighat -- Sultanic rule in the mirror of medieval political literature / Stefan Leder -- Avoiding history's teleology: Byzantine and Islamic political philosophy / Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis -- The king's beautiful body: on the political dilemmas of ideal government / Hans-Joachim Schmidt -- The 'book of the pearl on the ruler' in The unique necklace by Ibn 'Abd Rabbih: preliminary remarks / Isabel Toral-Niehoff -- A scholar's claims on practical politics: Nūr al-Dīn al-Rānīrī's seventeenth-century Malay Bustān al-salāṭīn / Edwin P. Wieringa -- A proposal for the classification of political literature in Arabic and Persian: folk narrative as a source of political thought? / Mohsen Zakeri.
Subject Education of princes -- Islamic Empire
Education of princes -- Europe
Political science -- Philosophy
Islamic Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Conduct of life
Europe -- Kings and rulers -- Conduct of life
Added name(s) Forster, Regula editor
Yavari, Neguin editor
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