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The just prince: a manual of leadership: including an authoritative English translation of the Sulwan al-Mutaʻ fi ʻUdwan al-Atba by Muhammad ibn Zafar al-Siqilli (consolation for the ruler during the hostility of subjects)
London: Saqi. Edited by R. Hrair Dekmejian, Ibn Ẓafar & Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh (2003)
Abstract
The Sulwan al-Muta' is an 800 year-old handbook for statesmen written by a Sicilian Arab who addressed this advice for a "just prince" based on Islamic morality, European realism and a broad-ranging knowledge of different cultures. The work is explicated using straight philosophical discourse as well as the narrative whirl of fables-within-fables so beloved of ancient and mediaeval Oriental literature. This is a work of practical political philosophy that combines penetrating contemporary analysis, the entertainment value of The Thousand and One Nights , and the deep insight of Sun TzuLinks
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