Squeezing juice from the `fruits of the caliphs:` tastes, contexts, and textual transplantation at a late medieval egyptian court

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6. And inspired by Persianate styles of courtly history - was widely consumed and copied by his contemporaries, he seems to have been somewhat unable to benefit greatly from the cultural and social capital he accrued from it. The Book of Marzban is best described as a work of advice literature based on a lost tenth-century source text. Ghazi al-Malatyawi shortly after 1197-1201 for the Saljuq sultan Sulaymanshah. One of the key appeals of this literary form for courtiers, is that it affords a potentially innocuous and indirect way to offer advice . . .

 



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