... lover and female beloved. At the same time masculine vulnerability to the controlling forces of passion is highlighted and the importance of regulating disordered emotions is stressed. Other poems are cast in an advice literature form, with a wise father instructing his son in the socially acceptable...

... Islamic political theory Mirrors for princes advice literature juristic treatises Islamic jurisprudence chancery manuals The chapters of Part One have demonstrated that the overall character of the institutional caliphate can be gleaned through an examination of the careers of the Abbasid family...

... for princes Sassanians advice literature advisers Bahr al fawaʾid Sea of Precious Virtues anon court etiquette Syria Ashʿari tradition Ashrafiyya Library Damascus companions of the Prophet fiqh jurisprudence hadith Humaʾi J jihad Kitab nasihat al muluk Book of Counsel for Kings anon libraries...

... Saʿid al Suʿada khanqah Shadhili brotherhood Sunni Islam advice literature asceticism Hamawiyya banu family al Kamil Sultan Kitab al Siyasa al mulukiyya The Book of Kingly Rulership Taj al Din Ibn Hamawiyya Syro Egyptian lands Upper Egypt Almohads Fakhr al Din Ibn Shaykh al Shuyukh Ibn...

... as a latter-day Pharaoh, and other Muslim elements in these accounts, such as the importance of positioning the battle on a Friday, are discussed. Narrative techniques, including theatrical features, are analysed. The influence of the Mirrors for Princes advice literature is also examined. This chapter...

... Cooperson M al Fatḥ b Khāqān secretary Thomas D Yāqūṭ mushabbiha anthropomorphists Reynolds G al Qāḍī W Leder S Hārūn A Muªammad b Aªmad b Abī Duʾād Arabic Essays Sectarian polemic Advice literature dialogism The carefully crafted dialogues that al-Jāḥiẓ stages with his addressees are meant...

... Opinions from Judicial Rulings and Discretionary Actions of Judges and Rulers al Qarafi al ʿIqd al farid li al malik al Saʿid The Unique Necklace for a Content King Ibn Talha madrasa Mamluk period Sufism usul al fiqh speculative jurisprudence advice literature jurists mirrors for princes Syria...

... scholar Sivas taṣawwuf zāwiyas advice literature Aflākī Shams al Dīn Aḥmad hagiographer Baghdad dedications illuminated Erzincan Ghiyāth al Dīn ʿAbd al Raḥīm ibn Yūnus Hamidid patron Ibn al ʿArabī scholar ʿĪsā ibn Zakariyyāʾ Hamidid patron Kayseri Mangujakids mirrors for princes Qur’ans...