Mirror for princes or vizor for viziers
The twelfth-century Arabic popular encyclopedia Mufīd al-'ulūm and its relationship with the anonymous Persian Bahr al-fawā'id
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2805729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geert Jan Van Gelder (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 313-338 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x01000180 |
| OpenAlex | W2160955661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
There are close links between the anonymous Persian twelfth-century Bahr al-fawā'id, translated by Julie Scott Meisami as The sea of precious virtues: a medieval mirror for princes (Salt Lake City, 1991) and an Arabic work entitled Mufīd al-'ulūm wa-mubīd al-humūm, variously attributed but probably by a certain Jamāl al-Din Abū 'Abd Allāh Muhammad Ihn Ahmad al-Qazwīnī who wrote it in 551/1156, only a few years before the Persian work was completed (at some time between 1159 and 1162, according to Meisami). The article provides a summary of the contents of Mufīd al-'ulūm, which has been printed several times but which has never been studied in any detail, and discusses the parallels with and differences from Bahr al-fawā'id
Ancient history · Arabic · Art · Art history · Encyclopedia · Hum · Linguistics · Parallels · Performance art · Persian · Theology · Classics · Education and Islamic Studies · Engineering · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2011 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |