Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs - World Thought in Translation

Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Sharani (author), Adam Abdelhamid Sabra (translator)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern Egypt

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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780300198652
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Pub date:	03 Mar 2017
DEWEY:	297.40962
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	256
Weight:	400g
Height:	217mm
Width:	147mm
Spine width:	21mm