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Important Counsels To Kings And Imams By Shaykh ʻAlwan (ʻAli Ibn ʻAttiyyah Al-Hamawi) ; Translation, With A Historic Introduction, The Biography Of The Author And Commentaries On The Text, Abdullah S. Zaid

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is intended to be an analysis of a book entitled "Important Counsels to Kings and Imams." It is, in the same time, a research on the book's author, named Alwan Ibn Atiyyah al-Hamawi. Alwan was a Syrian muslim scholar, who lived in the sixteenth century. Alwan witnessed the Ottoman conquering of Syria, so, he wrote his book, Important Counsels to Kings and Imams, as a reflection of his views toward the Ottoman regime. Alwan addressed his book to Sultan Selim I, encouraging him to establish justice through the religious law, the Sharia.

The thesis is composed of four …