Adab and governance in two letters of al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād
This article considers the role of adab literary cultivation in the practice of Islamic statecraft in the 4th/10 century Western Iran. Analyzing two letters drawn from a surviving dīwān of letters composed during the period of Buyid rule in Iraq and Western Iran by the famed vizier al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbā...
| Published in: | History compass |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2021
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History compass
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| Summary: | This article considers the role of adab literary cultivation in the practice of Islamic statecraft in the 4th/10 century Western Iran. Analyzing two letters drawn from a surviving dīwān of letters composed during the period of Buyid rule in Iraq and Western Iran by the famed vizier al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/995), the article addresses how adab learning informed and inflected the conduct and practice of interactions with the state. Countering the oft-made claim that learning was functional grease for the machinery of government, it argues that adab was essential to holding state and society together. |
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| ISSN: | 1478-0542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12684 |