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" Advice for the sultan : "
Neguin Yavari
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BL
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653663
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Yavari, Neguin
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Advice for the sultan : : prophetic voices and secular politics in medieval islam /\ Neguin Yavari
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vii, 197 pages ;; 23 cm
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0199338922
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: 9780199338924
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: 1849042608
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: 9781849042604
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: 0231704100
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: 9780231704106
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-176) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Islam and politics-- History-- To 1500
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| Dewey Classification
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297.2/720902
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BP173.7.Y374 2014
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