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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
Jalalean Ethics (Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People)اخلاق جلالیJalāl al-Dīn DawānīCounsel and governance9th century AHPersianListed only
Muhsinean Ethicsاخلاق محسنیḤusayn Vāʿiẓ KāshifīCounsel and governance9th century AHPersianListed only
Wonders of Conduct in the Natures of Kingshipبدائع السلك في طبائع الملكIbn al-AzraqCounsel and governance9th century AHArabicListed only
Vernacular Secretum versionsPoridat de las poridades; Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Secreta secretorum (Old French, German, Russian, Welsh...)Anonymous and later translators (Castilian, English)Counsel and governance9th century AHOtherListed only

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Jalalean Ethics (Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People)

اخلاق جلالی

Akhlāq-i Jalālī

Jalāl al-Dīn Dawānī (d. 908/1502)

Philosophy · Counsel and governance · Persian · 9th century AH · Listed only

Revises Ṭūsī with illuminationist (ishrāqī) touches;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1475-77, Shiraz (for Uzun Hasan) (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Lithographs; Tehran · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • W. F. Thompson, Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People (London 1839) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

  • Resonance, not influence: The Nasirean ethics The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

Muhsinean Ethics

اخلاق محسنی

Akhlāq-i Muḥsinī

Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī (d. 910/1504–05)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Persian · 9th century AH · Listed only

A popular Timurid mirror in Persian with simplified Ṭūsī/Dawānī schemes and stories.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1494-1500, Herat (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Hertford 1850 (lithograph) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Henry Keene, Akhlāq-i Muḥsinī (Hertford 1850) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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Wonders of Conduct in the Natures of Kingship

بدائع السلك في طبائع الملك

Badāʾiʿ al-silk fī ṭabāʾiʿ al-mulk

Ibn al-Azraq (d. 896/1491)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Arabic · 9th century AH · Listed only

Follows Ibn Khaldūn's civilisation theory with Andalusi examples;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1480s, Granada, then Tlemcen/Málaga (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • ʿAlī Sāmī al-Nashshār (Baghdad 1977) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Vernacular Secretum versions

Poridat de las poridades; Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Secreta secretorum (Old French, German, Russian, Welsh...)

Poridat de las poridades; Secrees

Anonymous and later translators (Castilian, English) (13th–15th c. CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Other · 9th century AH · Listed only

Wide vernacular diffusion made the Secretum a mirror for princes in dozens of languages.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
13th-15th c., Spain, England, France, German lands, Russia (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Kasten, Poridat de las poridades (Madrid 1957); Steele, EETS e.s. 66 (1894); Manzalaoui, Secretum secretorum: Nine English Versions (EETS 276, Oxford 1977) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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