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Advice for the sultan: prophetic voices and secular politics in medieval Islam

Advice for the sultan: prophetic voices and secular politics in medieval Islam
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ISBN 1849042608 (hardcover)
9781849042604 (hardcover)
Author Yavari, Neguin
Title Advice for the sultan : prophetic voices and secular politics in medieval Islam / Neguin Yavari
Publisher London : C. Hurst & Co., 2014
Physical desc. vii, 197 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-176) and index.
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.
Subject Islam and politics -- History -- To 1500
Islamic ethics -- History -- To 1500
Islamic literature -- History and criticism
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