Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs
By: Sha'rani, Abd' Al-Wahab Ibn Ahmed Ibn Ali
Language: English
Hardcover
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Product DetailsBy: | Sha'rani, Abd' Al-Wahab Ibn Ahmed Ibn Ali |
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Language: | English |
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Format: | Hardcover |
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Pages: | 245 pp |
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Publisher: | Yale University Press, New Haven 2017 |
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Dimensions: | 14 x 22 cm |
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ISBN-13: | 9780300198652 |
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Topic: | Early Work - History - Middle East Studies |
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This guide to political behavior and expediency offers advice to Sufi shaykhs, or spiritual guides, on how to interact and negotiate with powerful secular officials, judges, and treasurers, or emirs. Translated into English for the first time, it is a unique account of the relationship between spiritual and political authority in late medieval / early modern Islamic society.