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Sufism --- Islam and state --- History. --- Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad,

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This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern Egypt This guide to political behavior and expediency offers advice to Sufi shaykhs, or spiritual guides, on how to interact and negotiate with powerful secular officials, judges, and treasurers, or emirs. Translated into English for the first time, it is a unique account of the relationship between spiritual and political authority in late medieval / early modern Islamic society.

Sufism --- Islam and politics --- Political aspects --- History --- Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad,

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Highlights a number of the major Sufi figures whose writings on legal theory were strongly shaped by their Sufism, showing how they belonged to the same tradition and developed each other's ideas.

Islamic law. --- HISTORY / Middle East / General. --- Civil law (Islamic law) --- Law, Arab --- Law, Islamic --- Law in the Qurʼan --- Sharia (Islamic law) --- Shariʻah (Islamic law) --- Law, Oriental --- Law, Semitic --- Ibn al-ʻArabī, --- Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, --- Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, --- ʻIjlī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, --- Influence.