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The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c16.s16.t1: A.—Texts on Politics, Law and Administration

The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehlī c16.s16.t1

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A.—Texts on Politics, Law and Administration

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*Ādāb-u’l-mulūk wa kifāyat-u’l-mamlūk* by Muḥammad bin Manṣūr Quraishī *alias* Fakhr-i-Mudabbir. I. O. 647 [also called] *Ādāb-u’l-ḥarb wa’sh-shuj’āh*. B. M. Add. 16853.

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*Ādāb-u’s-salṭanah* author not known. Bib. Nat. 770.

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*Ā’īn-i-Akbarī* by Abū’l-Faḍl-i-‘Allāmī edited by H. Blochmann. Bib. Indica, Calcutta 1877. Translated into English by H. Blochmann and Jarrett. Bib. Indica, Calcutta 1894.

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*Akhlāq-i-Jahāngīrī* (on ethics and politics) by Nūr-u’d-dīn Muḥammad Qāḍī Khāqānī. I. O. 1547.

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*Akhlāq-i-Muḥsinī* by Ḥusain Wā’iẓ-i-Kāshifī. Hertford 1850. Translated into English by H. G. Keene. Hertford 1850.

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*Akhlāq-i-Nāṣirī* by Muḥammad bin Ḥasan *alias* Nāṣir aṭ-Ṭūsī. Lucknow 1309 A.H.

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*Al-aḥkām-u’s-sulṭāniyah* by Abū’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī al-Baghdādī al-Māwardī. Cairo 1298 A.H. French version: *Les Statuts Gouvernementaux ou Règle de Droit Public et Administratif par Mawerdī*. Traduits et annotès par E. Fagnan. Alger. 1915.

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*Al-fatāwā-u’l-‘Ālamkīriyah fī’l-furū‘-i’l-Ḥanafiyah*, 6 volumes (a compendium of Muslim Law of the Ḥanafī school). compiled by Maulānā a’sh-Shaikh Niẓām and others at the command of the Emperor Aurangzīb ‘Ālamgīr. Calcutta 1832—1843.

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*Al-maqālāt-u’l-‘ashr* bi Arasṭāṭālīs (professing to be Aristotle’s advice to Alexander). Translated from Greek into Arabic by Yaḥyā bin Baṭrīq. C. U. L. Add. 1168. A Persian version of above styled *Kitāb-u’s-siyāsat fī tadbīr-i’r-riyāsat*. C. U. L. Qq. 293.

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*Arthashāstra* by Kautilya, also called Chānakya. Translated into English by R. Shama Shastry. Mysore 1923.

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*A’s-siyāsat-u’sh-shar‘iyah fī siyādat-i’r-rā‘ī wa’s-sa‘ādat-i’r-ra‘iyah* by Sayyid ‘Abd-u’llah Jamāl-u’d-dīn. Cairo 1319.

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*A’s-sulūk bi ma‘rifat-i’l-mulūk* by Taqī-u’d-dīn Aḥmad al-Maqrīzī. C. U. L. Qq. 52, 15.

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*Āthār-u’l-wuzarā* (Lives of celebrated wazīrs written in 9th Century A.H.) by Saif-u’d-dīn Ḥājī bin Niẓām al-Faḍlī. C. U. L. CIX, Add. 214 (Lewis 32).

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*A’t-tibr-u’l-masbūk fī naṣīḥat-i’l-mulūk* by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Ghazālī. Cairo 1317 A.H.

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*Dastūr-u’l-albāb fī ‘ilm-i’l-ḥisāb* by Ḥājī ‘Abd-u’l-Ḥamīd Muḥarrir Ghaznawī, MS. in Rampūr State Library. (References are to Shaikh ‘Abd-ur-Rashīd’s copy).

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*Dastūr-u’l-kātib fī ta‘yīn-i’l-marātib* by Muḥammad ibn Hindū Shāh al-Munshī a‘n-Nakhjawānī Shams. Bib. Nat. 1054.

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*Dastūr-u’l-wuzarā* by Ghiyāth-u’d-dīn bin Humām-u’d-dīn alias Khwāndamīr. B. M. or. 234.

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*Dastūr-u’s-saltanah* by Abū’l-Faḍl Munshī a‘sh-Shīrāzī. Bib. Nat. 769.

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*Dhakīrat-u’l-mulūk* (A book on ethics with special reference to politics) by Sayyid ‘Alī ibn Shihāb Hamdānī, the famous saint of Kashmīr. I. O. 2169.

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*Ḍuḥa-al-Islām* by Aḥmad Amīn. Cairo.

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*Fajr-u’l-Islām* by Aḥmad Amīn. Cairo.

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*Farā’iḍ-u’s-sulūk fī faḍā’il-i’l-mulūk* (on politics) by Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī a‘r-Rashīd a‘ṭ-Ṭā’ibī a‘s-Sajāsī. Bib. Nat.

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*Fatāwā-i-jahāndārī* by Ḍiyā-u’d-dīn Baranī I. O. 1149.

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*Fi’l ādāb-i’s-sulṭāniyah wa’d-dawal-i’l-Islāmiyah* by Muḥammad bin ‘Alī alias Ibn Ṭiqṭiqā al-Fakhrī. Paris 1895

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*Fiqh-i-Fīrūzshāhī* based on materials collected by Maulānā Imām-i-Humām Ṣadr-u’l-millat, wa’d-dīn Ya‘qūb Muẓaffar Kirāmī. I. O. 2987.

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*Haft Kishwar* (on politics and ethics) author unknown. I. O. 1532.

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*Hidāyah* translated by Charles Hamilton edited by Standish Grove Grady, London 1870.

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*Ḥujjat-u’l-bālighah* (the Shī‘ah point of view regarding khilāfat) by Abū’l-Qāsim Riḍwī. Lahore 1874.

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*Iḥyā-u’l-‘ulūm-u’d-dīn* by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. Cairo 1376 A.H.

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*Intikhāb-i-Shāyastah Khānī* by Ibn Ḥājī Shams-u’d-dīn Muḥammad Ḥusain Ḥakīm. I. O. 1731. This work is a revised version of *Jāwīdān-i-khirad* (a work on ethics and politics) by Taqī-u’d-dīn Muḥammad bin Shaikh Muḥammad al-Arrajānī a’t-Tustārī.

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*Kaukab-u’l-mulk wa maukib-u’t-Turk* (a treatise on the art of government) author unknown. C. U. L. MS. Qq. 64.

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*Kifāyah-i-Abū Muslim* (a compendium of Muslim Law) by Abū Muslim of Marv. I. O. 389.

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*Kīmiyā-i-sa‘ādat* by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. Calcutta 1253 A H.

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*Kitāb-u’l-ḥikmat fī makhlūqāt-i’llah* by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al- Ghazzālī edited by Muṣṭafā al-Qabbānī. Cairo 1903.

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*Kitāb-u’l-imāmat wa’s-siyāsah* ascribed to Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd-u’llah bin Muslim ibn Quṭaibah edited by Muḥammad Maḥmūd a’r-Rāfi‘ī, 2 volumes in one. Cairo 1904.

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*Lawāmi‘-u’l-ishrāq fī makārim-i’l akhlāq*, commonly known as *Akhlāq-i-Jalālī* by Muḥammad bin As‘ad Dawwānī edited by Muḥammad Kāẓim Shīrāzī. Calcutta 1911. English translation by W. F. Thompson called *The Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People*. London 1839.

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*Ma‘ālim-u’l-qurbah fī aḥkām-i’l-ḥisbah* by Ḍiyā-u’d-dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al- Quraishī a’sh-Shāfa‘ī known as Ibn-u’l-Ukhawwah edited by Reuben Levy. (Gibb Memorial Series.) London 1938.

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*Ma'āthir-u'l-mulūk* (anecdotes and sayings of kings, caliphs, philosophers, saints, imāms, etc.) by Ghiyāth-u'd-dīn bin Humām-u'd-dīn alias Khwāndamīr. B. M. or. 3643.

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*Majmū'-i-Khānī* by Kamāl Karīm.

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*Malfūzāt-i-Ṣāḥib Qirān* (an amended edition of *Malfūzāt-i-Tīmūrī* by Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusainī) by Muḥammad Afḍal Bukhārī. C. U. L. Add. 302.

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*Malfūzāt-i-Tīmūrī*, also called *Tuzuk-i-Tīmūrī*, by Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusainī based on the hypothetical autobiography of Tīmūr in Turkī. Translated into English by Major Davy as *Political and Military Institutes of Timour*. Edited by G. White. Oxford 1783. Tr. by Major C. Stewart. London 1830.

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*Manū Dharmaśāstra* English translations by
(i) A. C. Burnell (completed and edited by Edward W. Hopkins). (Trübner's Oriental Series.) London 1884.
(ii) G. Bühler, as *The Laws of Manu* (Sacred Books of the East Series.) Oxford 1886.

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*Mirzā-nāmah* by Mīrzā Kāmrān edited and translated into English by Maulavī Hidāyat Ḥusain in J. A. S. B. (new series No. 9) 1913.

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*Mukhtār-u'l-ikhtiyār* (a compendium of legal decisions on topics including judicial and civil administration) by Ibn Ghiyāth-u'd-dīn Ḥusainī Ikhtiyār. Bod. Fraser 239, 234, 235.

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*Mūrid-u'l-laṭāfat fī man wāliy-u's-salṭanat wa'l-khilāfat* by Jamāl-u'd-dīn Abū'l-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Taghrībardī. C. U. L Dd. 3, 11.

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*Naṣā'iḥ Ḥaḍrat Imām 'Alī ibn Mūsī-a'r-Riḍā bi Māmūn-i'r-Rashīd*. Bod. Ouseley Add. 69.

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*Naṣā'iḥ Niẓām-u'l-mulk* also called *Waṣāyā-i-Niẓām-u'l-mulk*, said to be the advice given by Niẓām-u’l-mulk Ṭūsī to his son on the duties of a wazīr. Bod. Fraser 251.

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*Naṣā’iḥ Shāh Rukhī* by Jalāl bin Muḥammad bin ‘Ubaid-u’llah al-Qāyanī Nat. Bib. MS. A.F. 112 (163).

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*Naṣā’iḥ-u’l-mulūk* by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. C. U. L MS.

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*Naṣā’iḥ-u’l-wuzarā wa’l-umarā* by Sārī Muḥammad Pāshā edited and translated by Walter Livingston Wright. Princeton 1935.

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*Naṣīḥat-nāmah-i-shāhī* (on politics) by Kamāl-u’d-dīn Ḥusain ibn Ḥasan Khwārazmī. B.M. or. 4109.

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*Naṣīḥat-u’l-mulūk* by Abū’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī al-Baghdādī al-Māwardī. Paris, De Slane, No. 244.

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*Nihāyat-u’l-arab fī funūn-i’l-adab* selected by Shihāb-u’d-dīn Aḥmad bin ‘Abd-u’l-Wahhāb a’n-Nuwairī. Cairo 1926.

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*Pand-nāmah-i-Sabuktigīn* edited by Muḥammad Nāẓim in J. R. A. S. 1933.

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*Qābūs-nāmah* (on statecraft) by ‘Unṣur-u’l-Ma‘ālī Kaikā’ūs bin Sikandar bin Qābūs bin Washmgīr (written 475 A.H.) edited with an introduction and notes by Sa‘īd-i-Nafīsī. Teheran 1933.

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*Qānūn-nāmah-i-shāhī* a manual of Ottoman laws. C. U. L. Add. 304.

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*Qānūn-u’l-ḥikmat wa’d-dastūr*. Bod. Elliot 345.

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*Qur’ān*—(The Holy Qur’ān) annotated and translated by ‘Allama ‘Abdullah Yūsuf ‘Alī. Lahore.

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*Risālah-i-akhlāq-i-humāyūn* (on ethics and politics) by Ikhtiyār al-Ḥusainī. Bod. Fraser 253.

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*Risālah-i-Nūriyah dar ādāb-i-salṭanat* written for Nūr-u'd-dīn Jahāngīr by Shaikh ‘Abd-u'l-Ḥaqq Dehlawī. *Ṣaḥā'if-i-Shaikh* Ṣadr-u'd-dīn fī'l-akhlāq. I. O. 2175. *Shāhid-i-Ṣādiq* (an Encyclopædia of Laws, etc.) by Ṣādiq bin Ṣāliḥ Iṣfahānī. I. O. 1537. *Sharḥ-i-kalimāt-u'l-khulafā a'r-rāshidīn* (A hundred sayings of each of the four Caliphs) paraphrased and explained by Muḥammad al-‘Umaṛ a'r-Rashīd al-Waṭwāṭ. C. U. L. XX ; B. M. Add. 264 *Shukranīti* translated by B. K. Sarkār. Allahabad 1914. *Sirāj-u'l-mulūk* by Abū Bakr Muḥammad bin al-Walīd al-Quraishī al Fihrī a'ṭ-Ṭarṭūshī. Nat. Bib. MS. NF. 281. *Siyāsat-nāmah* or *Siyar-u'l-mulūk* by Abū ‘Alī Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī Ṭūsī Niẓām-u'l-mulk edited by Charles Scheffer. Paris 1897. Translated into French by Charles Scheffer as *Traites de Gouvernement*. Paris 1893. *Sulūk-u'l-mulūk* (on politics) by Faḍl bin Rūzbahān al-Iṣfahānī. *Sulūk-u's-salṭanah* by al-Ghazzālī based on an Arabic version of a treatise by Aristotle. B. M. or. 254. *Tadhkirat-u'l-khulafā fi tawṣiyat-i'l-mulūk wa'l-umarā* Anonymous. I. O. Delhi Persian Collection No. 910. *Tārīkh Ibn Khaldūn* Muqaddamah. Beyrout 1879. Urdu translation by Maulawī ‘Abd-u'r-Raḥmān. Lahore 1904. *Tārīkh tamaddun-u'l-Islāmī* by Jurjī Zaydān. Cairo. Urdu translation by Maulawī Muḥammad Ḥalīm Anṣārī Radaulwī.

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Amritsar. *Tauqī‘āt-i-Kisrā*, also called *Dastūr-nāmah-i-Kisrawī* (on politics) translated into Persian by Mīr Jalāl-u’d-dīn Muḥammad Ṭabāṭabā. Bod. Ouseley 135. *Tuḥfah-i-Quṭb Shāhī* (on ethics and politics) by ‘Alī bin Ṭaifūr al-Busṭāmī (dedicated to Sulṭān ‘Abd-u’llah Quṭb Shāh 1035-1083 A.H.) Bod. Ouseley 226. *Tuḥfat-u’l-wuzarā wa’s-salāṭīn* by Jalāl-u’d-dīn Iṣfahānī. I. O. 3786. *Viṣhṇu Smṛiti* English translation by Julius Jolly as *The Institutes of Viṣhṇu*. (Sacred Books of the East Series). Oxford 1880. *Ẓafar-nāmah* (politics pretending to be written by Buzurgmihr for Naushīrwān. Bod. Ouseley Add. 69.

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