Louise Marlow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Marlow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Marlow |
| SIGNATURE | MARLOW L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9161-4969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Professional Life of a Calligrapher-Translator: Social Mobility and Intellectual Versatility among Mid-Level Scholars of the Later Ilkhanate
This article studies the itinerant life and professional activities of a mid-level calligrapher translator-poet of the later Ilkhanid period. The only contemporaneous information concerning Muḥammad b. Saʿd Nakhjavānī, known as Ibn al-Sāvajī (d. after 732/1332), lies in the manuscripts that he copied and the translations that he completed (or that were imputed to him). These materials suggest the profile of a scholar-intellectual active principal…
Neguin Yavari, The Future of Iran’s Past: Niẓām al-Mulk Remembered
At the centre of Neguin Yavari’s highly original and deeply stimulating book is the figure of Niẓām al-Mulk (1018-92), the celebrated vizier who, for several decades in the eleventh century, shaped and effectively ruled the Seljuk empire. With an emphasis on the lasting effects of the vizier’s actions and the adaptations of his memory in a variety of later contexts, The Future of Iran’s Past: Niẓām al-Mulk Remembered is by no means a straightforw…
Translation of the Words of ʿAli b. Abi Tālib in Early Fourteenth-Century Iran: A Local Bilingual Network
The late Ilkhanid period saw a florescence of intellectual and cultural production in northwestern and west-central Iran. This article argues that a regional network with its center at Isfahan contributed to this creativity through the production of translation-adaptations between Arabic and Persian. In a period of episodic sectarian tensions, especially in the wake of Öljeytü’s efforts to declare Twelver Shiʿism the official religion of parts of…
Introduction: Advice Literature and Persianate Political Ethics
The ‘Merits of Isfahan’ from Arabic into Persian
Writing in Isfahan in 729/1328-9, Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Abī l-Riżā ʿAlavī Āvī produced a translation into Persian of the eleventh-century Arabic Risālat Maḥāsin Iṣfahān (‘Epistle on the Merits of Isfahan’) of Mufaḍḍal b. Saʿd b. al-Ḥusayn al-Māfarrukhī. This article explores the context for and purposes of Āvī’s translation-adaptation with particular reference to the extensive system of networks active in western Iran during the reign of the Ilkh…
De l’Éthique du prince et du gouvernement de l’état, written by Al-Māwardī
A Liminal Setting: The Location of Naṣīḥat al-mulūk
This chapter situates Naṣīḥat al-mulūk ’s first composition in the geographical-cultural context of the Samanid domains. It discusses late ninth- and tenth-century conditions in the regions of Transoxiana (location of the Samanid capital Bukhara), Khurasan and Tukharistan. On the basis of contextual factors, such as the establishment of Persian as a lingua franca and the region’s Buddhist heritage, and the cultural, linguistic and geographical in…
Among Kings and Sages: Greek and Indian Wisdom in an Arabic Mirror for Princes
The mirror for princes known as the Naṣīḥat al-mulūk of al-Māwardī, probably a tenth-century text, is replete with references to sources identified by the author as “Indian”. A large number of these texts also appear in the so-called Waṣiyyat Arisṭāṭālīs li-l-Iskandar ; some examples find parallels in Kalīla wa-Dimna and Bilawhar wa-Būḏāsaf . These coincidences raise several possibilities: first, that the author’s “Indian” source represents a wor…
Virtuous Governance from the Imams to Their Deputies: Some Themes in Pre-modern Imami Shiʿi Writings
This essay constitutes a brief survey of conceptions and representations of just governance among Shiʿi communities and in the writings of Shiʿi scholars, philosophers, and men of letters in pre-modern times. It covers the period from the lifetimes of the Imams to the early modern era, and traces the intellectual and literary responses among Shiʿi writers to changing historical circumstances, including the onset of the occultation, the growth and…
A Thirteenth-Century Scholar in the Eastern Mediterranean: Sirāj al-Dīn Urmavī, Jurist, Logician, Diplomat
This essay examines the career of the Shafiʿī jurist and logician Sirāj al-Dīn Urmavī (1198–1283), who combined his scholarly and judicial activities with ambassadorial appointments to Frederick II, King of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor, and the Ilkhan Hülegü. Originally from Azerbaijan, Sirāj al-Dīn spent most of his professional life in Ayyūbid Cairo and, from 1257, in Seljuk Konya, where he spent the final decades of his life as chief qadi. Th…
Surveying Recent Literature on the Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes Genre
The study of the medieval Arabic and Persian ‘mirror for princes’ literatures in many respects resembles that of the similarly abundant literatures produced in Byzantium and the Latin West. In earlier scholarship, the predominant approach was that of the history of ideas, and scholars tended to focus on depictions of the ideal ruler and other aspects of the ‘political thought’ expressed in the mirror literatures. A secondary area of interest conc…
A Samanid Work of Counsel and Commentary: The Naṣīḥat Al-Mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī
The Naṣīḥat al—mulūk traditionally attributed to al-Māwardī is a work of the Samanid period, and was probably written in Eastern Khurasan or Transoxania during the reign of Naṣr II b. Aḥmad (301–31/914–43). The author, whose book of advice and admonition was apparently unsolicited, was disturbed by the political, religious and cultural developments of the time and looked back with admiration to the political culture of the generation of Naṣr's gr…
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought
Kings, Prophets and the 'Ulama' in Mediaeval Islamic Advice Literature
L'A. analyse les diverses perspectives des auteurs de ce genre litteraire qu'on appelle miroir des princes aux XIII e et XIV e siecles a propos des rois, des prophetes et des docteurs. L'A. fait reference a une selection de travaux arabes et persans. Des textes persans, le Latā'if al-hikma est sans doute le plus connu. Elle s'interesse egalement a l'Athār al-uwal fī tartīb al-duwal redige en 1308 par l'historien et homme de lettres al-Hasan b. Ab…
Some Classical Muslim Views of the Indian Caste System
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought
Surveying Recent Literature on the Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes Genre
The study of the medieval Arabic and Persian ‘mirror for princes’ literatures in many respects resembles that of the similarly abundant literatures produced in Byzantium and the Latin West. In earlier scholarship, the predominant approach was that of the history of ideas, and scholars tended to focus on depictions of the ideal ruler and other aspects of the ‘political thought’ expressed in the mirror literatures. A secondary area of interest conc…
Kings, Prophets and the 'Ulama' in Mediaeval Islamic Advice Literature
L'A. analyse les diverses perspectives des auteurs de ce genre litteraire qu'on appelle miroir des princes aux XIII e et XIV e siecles a propos des rois, des prophetes et des docteurs. L'A. fait reference a une selection de travaux arabes et persans. Des textes persans, le Latā'if al-hikma est sans doute le plus connu. Elle s'interesse egalement a l'Athār al-uwal fī tartīb al-duwal redige en 1308 par l'historien et homme de lettres al-Hasan b. Ab…
Kings, Prophets and the 'Ulama' in Mediaeval Islamic Advice Literature
L'A. analyse les diverses perspectives des auteurs de ce genre litteraire qu'on appelle miroir des princes aux XIII e et XIV e siecles a propos des rois, des prophetes et des docteurs. L'A. fait reference a une selection de travaux arabes et persans. Des textes persans, le Latā'if al-hikma est sans doute le plus connu. Elle s'interesse egalement a l'Athār al-uwal fī tartīb al-duwal redige en 1308 par l'historien et homme de lettres al-Hasan b. Ab…
Some Classical Muslim Views of the Indian Caste System
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought
A Samanid Work of Counsel and Commentary: The Naṣīḥat Al-Mulūk of Pseudo-Māwardī
The Naṣīḥat al—mulūk traditionally attributed to al-Māwardī is a work of the Samanid period, and was probably written in Eastern Khurasan or Transoxania during the reign of Naṣr II b. Aḥmad (301–31/914–43). The author, whose book of advice and admonition was apparently unsolicited, was disturbed by the political, religious and cultural developments of the time and looked back with admiration to the political culture of the generation of Naṣr's gr…
Surveying Recent Literature on the Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes Genre
The study of the medieval Arabic and Persian ‘mirror for princes’ literatures in many respects resembles that of the similarly abundant literatures produced in Byzantium and the Latin West. In earlier scholarship, the predominant approach was that of the history of ideas, and scholars tended to focus on depictions of the ideal ruler and other aspects of the ‘political thought’ expressed in the mirror literatures. A secondary area of interest conc…
A Thirteenth-Century Scholar in the Eastern Mediterranean: Sirāj al-Dīn Urmavī, Jurist, Logician, Diplomat
This essay examines the career of the Shafiʿī jurist and logician Sirāj al-Dīn Urmavī (1198–1283), who combined his scholarly and judicial activities with ambassadorial appointments to Frederick II, King of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor, and the Ilkhan Hülegü. Originally from Azerbaijan, Sirāj al-Dīn spent most of his professional life in Ayyūbid Cairo and, from 1257, in Seljuk Konya, where he spent the final decades of his life as chief qadi. Th…
Virtuous Governance from the Imams to Their Deputies: Some Themes in Pre-modern Imami Shiʿi Writings
This essay constitutes a brief survey of conceptions and representations of just governance among Shiʿi communities and in the writings of Shiʿi scholars, philosophers, and men of letters in pre-modern times. It covers the period from the lifetimes of the Imams to the early modern era, and traces the intellectual and literary responses among Shiʿi writers to changing historical circumstances, including the onset of the occultation, the growth and…
Among Kings and Sages: Greek and Indian Wisdom in an Arabic Mirror for Princes
The mirror for princes known as the Naṣīḥat al-mulūk of al-Māwardī, probably a tenth-century text, is replete with references to sources identified by the author as “Indian”. A large number of these texts also appear in the so-called Waṣiyyat Arisṭāṭālīs li-l-Iskandar ; some examples find parallels in Kalīla wa-Dimna and Bilawhar wa-Būḏāsaf . These coincidences raise several possibilities: first, that the author’s “Indian” source represents a wor…
A Liminal Setting: The Location of Naṣīḥat al-mulūk
This chapter situates Naṣīḥat al-mulūk ’s first composition in the geographical-cultural context of the Samanid domains. It discusses late ninth- and tenth-century conditions in the regions of Transoxiana (location of the Samanid capital Bukhara), Khurasan and Tukharistan. On the basis of contextual factors, such as the establishment of Persian as a lingua franca and the region’s Buddhist heritage, and the cultural, linguistic and geographical in…
De l’Éthique du prince et du gouvernement de l’état, written by Al-Māwardī
Introduction: Advice Literature and Persianate Political Ethics
The ‘Merits of Isfahan’ from Arabic into Persian
Writing in Isfahan in 729/1328-9, Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Abī l-Riżā ʿAlavī Āvī produced a translation into Persian of the eleventh-century Arabic Risālat Maḥāsin Iṣfahān (‘Epistle on the Merits of Isfahan’) of Mufaḍḍal b. Saʿd b. al-Ḥusayn al-Māfarrukhī. This article explores the context for and purposes of Āvī’s translation-adaptation with particular reference to the extensive system of networks active in western Iran during the reign of the Ilkh…
Neguin Yavari, The Future of Iran’s Past: Niẓām al-Mulk Remembered
At the centre of Neguin Yavari’s highly original and deeply stimulating book is the figure of Niẓām al-Mulk (1018-92), the celebrated vizier who, for several decades in the eleventh century, shaped and effectively ruled the Seljuk empire. With an emphasis on the lasting effects of the vizier’s actions and the adaptations of his memory in a variety of later contexts, The Future of Iran’s Past: Niẓām al-Mulk Remembered is by no means a straightforw…
Translation of the Words of ʿAli b. Abi Tālib in Early Fourteenth-Century Iran: A Local Bilingual Network
The late Ilkhanid period saw a florescence of intellectual and cultural production in northwestern and west-central Iran. This article argues that a regional network with its center at Isfahan contributed to this creativity through the production of translation-adaptations between Arabic and Persian. In a period of episodic sectarian tensions, especially in the wake of Öljeytü’s efforts to declare Twelver Shiʿism the official religion of parts of…
The Professional Life of a Calligrapher-Translator: Social Mobility and Intellectual Versatility among Mid-Level Scholars of the Later Ilkhanate
This article studies the itinerant life and professional activities of a mid-level calligrapher translator-poet of the later Ilkhanid period. The only contemporaneous information concerning Muḥammad b. Saʿd Nakhjavānī, known as Ibn al-Sāvajī (d. after 732/1332), lies in the manuscripts that he copied and the translations that he completed (or that were imputed to him). These materials suggest the profile of a scholar-intellectual active principal…
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