Ḥadāyiq al-Siyar fi Adāb al-Mulūk
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- Country
- Iran
- City
- Tehran
- Institution
- Sipahsalar
- Shelfmark
- 1511
Contents
- Work 1: Ḥadāyiq al-Siyar fi Adāb al-Mulūk (Yaḥya b. Ṣā‘id b. Ạhmad, active first half of thirteenth century)
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- LOC subject headings
- Education of princes
- Author
- Yaḥya b. Ṣā‘id b. Ạhmad, active first half of thirteenth century
- يحيى بن صاعد بن احمد
- Show other names
- Yaḥya b. Ṣā‘id b. Ạhmad, active first half of thirteenth century (authorised)
- يحيى بن صاعد بن احمد (variant)
- Biographical notes
- Known to us only from his mirror for princes, the Ḥadāyiq al-Siyar, Yaḥya b. Ṣā‘id tells us that he had been sent to exile in Erzincan for some fifteen years. His treatise was designed as a present to sultan ‘Ala al-Din Kayqubad I for allowing him to return to court.
- Title
- Ḥadāyiq al-Siyar fi Adāb al-Mulūk
- حدايق السير في ادب الملوك
- Notes
- This mirror for princes is divided into the classic Ghazzalian ten chapter format.
- Composed in Erzincan probably in c. 1230-1237 [1230-1237 CE]
- Patron: ‘Ala al-Din Kayqubad I
- Main language of text
- Persian
- Bibliography
- Editions
- Yahya b. Ṣā‘id b. Ahmad, . "Hadayiq al-Siyar fi Adab al-Muluk." Farhang-i Iran Zamin. 25 1361: 240-371.
- Studies
- Peacock, A.C.S.. "Metaphysics and rulership in late fourteenth century Central Anatolia: Qadi Burhan al-Din of Sivas and his Iksīr al-Sa’ādāt." In Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Anatolia. Würzburg: 2016, 101-136.
- de Fouchécour, C.-H.. "Hadayeq al-Siyar: un mirroir des princes de la court de Qonya au VIIe-XIIIe siècle." Studia Iranica. 1 1972: 219-28.
Physical Description
History
- Date of copy
- possibly 14th. century
- Date of copy
- possibly 14th. century