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Cover illustration: Alexander the Great discusses the origins of the universe with seven wise men, including Aristotle, Socrates, Thales, Porphyry, Apollonius of Tyana, Hermes Trismegistus and Plato. From a fifteenth-century manuscript of the Iskandar-nāma (The book of Alexander) by Niẓāmī-yi Ganjawī (1141–1209). Reproduced with kind permission of Musée d'art et d'histoire, Ville de Genève. Legs Jean Pozzi.Photo credits: © Musée d'art et d'histoire, Ville de Genève, photographe : André Longchamp.
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Names: Boccaccini, Enrico, author.
Title: Reflecting mirrors, East and West : transcultural comparisons ofadvice literature for rulers (8th-13th century) / by Enrico Boccaccini.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022. | Series: Islamic history andcivilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 189 | Includes bibliographicalreferences and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021047057 (print) | LCCN 2021047058 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004498747 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004498921 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Education of princes–Middle East–Early works to 1800. | Education of princes–Europe–Early works to 1800. | Kātib, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Yaḥyá,-749 or 750. Risāla. | Jonas, Bishop of Orléans, approximately 780-843. De institutione regia. | Ghazzālī, 1058-1111. Naṣīḥat al-mulūk. | Castigos e documentos.
Classification:LCC JC393 .B628 2022 (print) | LCC JC393 (ebook) | DDC 320.01–dc23/eng/20211105 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021047057 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021047058
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ISSN 0929-2403
ISBN 978-90-04-49874-7 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-49892-1 (e-book)
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