Download or read book Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran written by Louise Marlow and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the Counsel for Kings as an illuminating commentary on the milieu and polity in which it was written and as a composition that seeks to persuade by drawing allusions between the diverse repertoire of wisdom literature available to the author and his audience and the circumstances of the author's time and place.