Author : Louise Marlow
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748696911
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.
Author : Louise Marlow
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Education of princes
ISBN : 9780748696901
Author : Louise Marlow
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Education of princes
ISBN : 9780748696987
Author : Louise Marlow
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781474422215
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to an early Arabic mirror, the 'Counsel for Kings' of Pseudo-Mawardi, this study evokes the mentality of the distinctive environment - the border region of eastern Iran - in which the text originated.
Author : Marlow Louise Marlow
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474406505
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 contingency of his power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this book wrote in a distinctive early tenth-century Iranian environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time and place.a 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.
Author : Louise Marlow
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1474406513
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 contingency of his power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this book wrote in a distinctive early tenth-century Iranian environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time and place.AGBPThe 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.
Author : L. Marlow
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0748696997
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.
Author : Assef Ashraf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2024-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1009361554
Uses political practices and a socially-oriented approach to explain imperial formation under the Qajars in early nineteenth-century Iran.
Author : Atta Muhammad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0755647602
This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor. The book reveals the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period. It also reveals the role of ordinary, non-elite actors who, by taking part in Sufi-affiliated religious or professional associations, were able take part in public life in late-Abbasid Baghdad.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9004523065
Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. And although recent research has fundamentally challenged established views of these texts, until now there has been no critical introduction to the genre. This volume therefore fills this important gap, while promoting a global historical perspective of different “mirrors for princes” traditions from antiquity to humanism, via Byzantium, Persia, Islam, and the medieval West. This Companion also proposes new avenues of reflection on the anchoring of these texts in their historical realities. Contributors are Makram Abbès, Denise Aigle, Olivier Biaggini, Hugo Bizzarri, Charles F. Briggs, Sylvène Edouard, Jean-Philippe Genet, John R. Lenz, Louise Marlow, Cary J. Nederman, Corinne Peneau, Stéphane Péquignot, Noëlle-Laetitia Perret, Günter Prinzing, Volker Reinhardt, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Tom Stevenson, Karl Ubl, and Steven J. Williams.
