Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs
'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn 'Ali al-Sha'rani
Abstract
This book 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, it is a unique account of the relationship between spiritual and political authority in late medieval/early modern Islamic society.
Keywords: spiritual authority, political authority, political behavior, Egypt, shaykh, emir, spiritual guide, late medieval Islamic society, early modern Islamic society
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300198652 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300198652.001.0001 |
