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Every work of the authors in the library’s orbit, in the reader or not: who wrote it, when, how it survives, where it can be read, and how it connects to other works. 82 so far. Where a field has not been checked against its source, it says so.
Checked on 2026-10-31
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4 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▼AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
On MonarchyMonarchiaDante AlighieriCounsel and governance8th century AHLatinListed only
The Shining Meteors on Useful Policyالشهب اللامعة في السياسة النافعةIbn Riḍwān al-MālaqīCounsel and governance8th century AHArabicListed only
Introduction to History (Prolegomena)المقدمةIbn KhaldūnOther, or not yet classed8th century AHArabicListed only
Al-Fakhri: on the systems of government and the Muslim dynastiesالفخري في الآداب السلطانية والدول الإسلاميةIbn al-ṬiqṭaqāCounsel and governance8th century AHArabicListed only

Records

On Monarchy

Monarchia

Monarchia

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 8th century AH · Listed only

Universal monarchy as necessary for realising the human intellect;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1313-18, Verona/Ravenna (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Prue Shaw (Cambridge 1995) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Prue Shaw (CUP 1995) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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The Shining Meteors on Useful Policy

الشهب اللامعة في السياسة النافعة

al-Shuhub al-lāmiʿa fī l-siyāsa al-nāfiʿa

Ibn Riḍwān al-Mālaqī (d. 783/1381)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 8th century AH · Listed only

A Maghribi mirror building on Ṭurṭūshī and the philosophers, written for Marinid/Nasrid courts.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
late 14th c., Málaga, Fez (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • ʿAlī Sāmī al-Nashshār (Casablanca 1984) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Connected works

Introduction to History (Prolegomena)

المقدمة

al-Muqaddima

Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808/1406)

Further afield · Other, or not yet classed · Arabic · 8th century AH · Listed only

Dynasties rise by ʿasabiyya and fall in about three generations;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
1377, Tunis, Qalʿat Ibn Salāma, Cairo (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Quatremère (Paris 1858); Dār Ṣādir ed. · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Franz Rosenthal (Princeton, Bollingen 1958; rev. 1967) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Al-Fakhri: on the systems of government and the Muslim dynasties

الفخري في الآداب السلطانية والدول الإسلامية

al-Fakhrī fī l-ādāb al-sulṭāniyya wa-l-duwal al-islāmiyya

Ibn al-Ṭiqṭaqā (fl. 701/1302)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 8th century AH · Listed only

A mirror in the first half, then a short history of caliphs and viziers as exemplars.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
1302, Mosul (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Ahlwardt (Gotha 1860); Cairo ed. · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • C. E. J. Whitting, Al-Fakhri on the Systems of Government (London 1947) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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