Advice for callow jurists and gullible mendicants on befriending emirs

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Advice for callow jurists and gullible mendicants on befriending emirs

ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad ibn 'Alī al-Sha'rānī ; translated by Adam Sabra

(World thought in translation)

Yale University Press, c2017

  • : hardcover

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كتاب إرشاد المغفلين من الفقهاء والفقراء إلى شروط صحبة الأمراء ومختصر كتاب إرشاد المغفلين من الفقهاء والفقراء إلى شروط صحبة الأمراء الحميد صبره

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"history / middle eastern studies"--back cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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