Lamp of Kings
12964
93 items in this record
The record is made up of 93 items. It was created in 1888/1889. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the Qatar National Library.
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Sirāj al-mulūk (Lamp of kings) is by Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Ṭurṭūshī, a Maliki imam also known as Ibn Abū Zandaqa. Al-Ṭarṭūshī was born in Tortosa in Catalonia (in what was then al-Andalus, present-day Spain) in 1059 or 1060. He died in Alexandria, Egypt in 1126 or 1127. The topic of the Sirāj al-mulūk, his most famous work, is political theory. The present edition was published in 1888−89 by Maṭbaʻat al-khayrīyah in Cairo. According to Kitāb iktifā' al-qanūʻ bimā huwa matbuʻ min ashhar al-ta'ālīf al-arabīya fī al-maṭābiʻ al-sharqīya wa al-gharbīya (Contentment of the seeker regarding the most famous Arabic compositions printed by Eastern and Western printing presses), a bibliographic dictionary of Arabic literature published by Edward Van Dyck in 1896, an earlier print edition of this work was made in Alexandria in 1872 or 1873. Included in the margins of this work is the text of al-Tibr al-mabsuk fī naṣā'iḥ al-mulūk (The golden ingot of advice for kings), a translation from Persian into Arabic of al-Ghazzālī's Naṣīhat al-mulūk (Advice for kings). Born in Ṭūs, Persia (present-day Iran), in 1058, al-Ghazzālī was one of the foremost intellectual luminaries of the Islamic world. However, the authorship of a fair amount of the Naṣīhat al-mulūk has been called into question on stylistic and other grounds.
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- 93 items
- Physical characteristics
168 pages ; 28 centimeters
- Written in
- Arabic in Arabic script
- Type
- Book
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- Qatar National Library
- Access conditions
Unrestricted
- Archive reference
- 12964
- Date(s)
- 1888/1889 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Politics and governmentKing and ruler
- Places
- SpainIslamic Republic of IranCairoEgypt
- People & organisations
- Ṭurṭūshī, Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd1058-1111 Ghazzālī
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- 12964
- Title
- Lamp of Kings
- Pages
- F-1-1 - F-1-93
- Author
- Ṭurṭūshī, Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd
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- Public Domain