Advice For Callow Jurists And Gullible Mendicants On Befriending Emirs (World Thought In Translation) - 9780300198652

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.

• | Author: ?Abd al-Wahhab ibn A?mad Sha?rani, Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Sharani
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0300198655
• | ISBN-13: 9780300198652