Slavs and Tatars : Mirrors for princes / [edited by Anthony Downey]
- Bib ID:
- 6977175
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Slavs and Tatars (Group of artists), artist
- Description:
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- Zürich : JRP Ringier, 2015
- Abu Dhabi : NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, 2015
- 192 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9783037644072 (paperback)
- 3037644079
- Summary:
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This form of political writing often called "advice literature", shared by Christian and Muslim cultures alike, "mirrors for princes" attempted to elevate statecraft ('dawla') to the same level as faith/religion ('din') during the Middle Ages. These guides for future rulers - Machiavelli's "The Prince" being a widely known example - addressed the delicate balance between seclusion and society, spirit and state, echoes of which we continue to find in the US, Europe, and the Middle East several centuries later. Today we suffer from the very opposite: there is no shortage of political commentary, but a notable lack of intelligent, eloquent discourse on the role of faith and the immaterial as a valuable agent in society or public life. This publication brings together the writing of preeminent scholars and commentators using the genre of medieval advice literature as a starting point to discuss fate and fortune versus governance, advice for female nobility, and an Indian television drama as a form of translation of statecraft. The illustrated essays are accompanied by an interview with Slavs and Tatars.
- Full contents:
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- Curator's prolgue / Maya Allison
- Editor's introduction / Anthony Downey
- A conversation with Slavs and Tatars / Anthony Downey & Beatrix Ruff
- Fate, fortune and governance in the medieval wor;d / Neguin Yavari
- 'On difference in Mirror for Princes': A view from medieval India / Mana Ahmed Asif
- Mirror for Princesses / Anna Della Subin
- Shaggy or shaved: The symbolism of hair among Persian Qalander sufis / Llyod Ridgeon
- Appendix: Chapter two of 'Arbab al'tariq'
- Echo translation / David Crowley.
- Notes:
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- Title from dust cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185)
- Chiefly in English with extracts from Kutadgu Bilig in the original Uighur and translations into English, Arabic, German, Polish, and Turkish.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Mirrors for princes
- Exhibited:
- Exhibition held NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, 1 Mar - 31 May 2015 ; collaborating venues: Kunsthalle Zurich, 30 Aug - 9 Nov 2014 ; Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, 15 Nov 2014 - 3 Mar 2015 ; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 17 April - 12 July 2015 ; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 24 Oct - 19 Dec 2015 ; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, 16 Jan - 19 Mar 2016.
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2015
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