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Author Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566, author.
شعراني، عبد الوهاب بن أحمد

Title Advice for callow jurists and gullible mendicants on befriending emirs / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad Shaʻrānī ; translated by Adam Sabra
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages)
Series World thought in translation
World thought in translation.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Translation -- Translator's Introduction -- Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs -- Excerpts from the Abbreviation -- Index
Summary English translation of an Arabic guide to political behaviour 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, providing insight into the relationship between spiritual and political authority in late medieval/early modern Islamic society and early modern Egypt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566.
SUBJECT Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566 fast
Subject Sufism -- Political aspects -- Egypt
Islam and politics -- Egypt -- History -- 16th century
Islam and state -- Egypt -- History -- 16th century
Sufism -- Early works to 1800
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Sufism
Islam and politics
Islam and state
Egypt
Genre/Form Early works
History
Form Electronic book
Author Sabra, Adam Abdelhamid, 1968- translator.
LC no. 2016938753
ISBN 0300225288
9780300225280
Other Titles 880-02 Irshād al-mughaffalīn min al-fuqahāʼ wa-al-fuqarāʼ ilá shurūṭ ṣuḥbat al-umarāʼ. English
880-02/(3/r ارشاد المغفلين من الفقهاء والفقراء الى شروط صحبة الأمراء. الانكليزية