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Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran - Volume I: the Nasihat Al-Muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes (Electronic book text)
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Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran - Volume I: the Nasihat Al-Muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes (Electronic book text)
Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature
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Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many
pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the
king; at the same time they assert that the king, if he is truly
virtuous, will appreciate being reminded of the contingency of his
power. The unknown author of the Counsel for Kings studied in this
book wrote in a distinctive early tenth-century Iranian
environment. He deploys an abundant set of cultural materials
representing 'perennial wisdom' of mixed provenances, which he
reinvigorates by applying them to the circumstances of his own time
and place. The first volume situates Counsel for Kings in its
historical context. The second volume gives direct access to a
substantial portion of the text through translation and commentary.
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