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eBook details
- Title: Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs
- Author : ?Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn ?Ali al-Sha?rani & Adam Sabra
- Release Date : January 10, 2017
- Genre: Islam,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2252 KB
Description
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.