Description |
1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) |
Series |
World thought in translation |
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World thought in translation.
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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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566.
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SUBJECT |
Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566 fast |
Subject |
Sufism -- Political aspects -- Egypt
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Islam and politics -- Egypt -- History -- 16th century
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Islam and state -- Egypt -- History -- 16th century
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Sufism -- Early works to 1800
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Sufism
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Islam and politics
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Islam and state
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Egypt
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Genre/Form |
Early works
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Sabra, Adam Abdelhamid, 1968- translator.
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LC no. |
2016938753 |
ISBN |
0300225288 |
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9780300225280 |
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