Advice for the sultan prophetic voices and secular politics in medieval Islam - Yavari, Neguin (London 4bC. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd., 2014)
Introduction -- The political lexicon of advice literature -- Metaphysics of good rule in the Kalila wa Dimna -- Secrets and veils as narrative strategies in advice literature -- Reason, the wheel of fortune and the 'Advent' of secular political thought -- Alterity and advice -- Words of counsel and lives of counsellors -- On mirrors and contexts.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-176) and index.
Keywords: Islam and politics -- History -- To 1500.