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Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs (Hardcover)
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Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs (Hardcover)
Series: World Thought in Translation
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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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