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Advice for callow jurists and gullible mendicants on befriending emirs / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad Shaʻrānī ; translated by Adam Sabra.

شعراني، عبد الوهاب بن أحمد. By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: World thought in translationPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2017.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0300225288
  • 9780300225280
Uniform titles: ارشاد المغفلين من الفقهاء والفقراء الى شروط صحبة الأمراء. الانكليزية Uniform titles:
  • Irshād al-mughaffalīn min al-fuqahāʼ wa-al-fuqarāʼ ilá shurūṭ ṣuḥbat al-umarāʼ. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version :: Advice for callow jurists and gullible mendicants on befriending emirs.DDC classification:
  • 297.40962 23
LOC classification:
  • BP188.8.E3 S437 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

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