Ibn Zafar

Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zafar , also Muhammad ibn Zafar as-Saqali and other variants, Ibn Zafar for short ( Arabic حجة الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أبي محمد بن محمد بن ظفر الصقلي, DMG Ḥuǧǧat ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Abī Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ẓafar aṣ-Ṣaqalī ; * 1104 ; † 1170 or 1172 ) was an Arab writer and political philosopher from Sicily during the Normans.

Sulwan al-Mutaʿ

Be سلوان المطاع في عدوان الأتباع / Sulwān al-muṭāʿ fī ʿudwān al-atbāʿ , for which he was often compared to Niccolò Machiavelli , the author of Il Principe , was discovered in the middle of the 19th century by the Sicilian orientalist Michele Amari and appeared in Italian in 1851. It has been translated into several languages.

"A wise educator is rather the one who makes his demands on the pupil in such a way that he conceals, conceals and conceals his reprehensible characteristics." Ibn Zafar, 1169 "

- Elias Canetti : Supplements from Hampstead (Munich 1994), p. 114

Translations

Joseph A. Kechichian: The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership

literature

R. Hrair Dekmejian and Adel Fathy Thabit: Machiavelli's Arab Precursor. Ibn Ẓafar al-Ṣiquillī . In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies . Volume 27, 2000, pp. 125-137. ( Online )

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Ibn Zafar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allaah Ibn Ẓafar; Muhammad Ibn-Zafar as-Saqali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Arabic writer and political philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	1104
DATE OF DEATH	1170 or 1172

[1] Name variants (SUB Göttingen)

[2] ttp://www.tc.umn.edu/~cmedst/gmap/uploaded/Machiavellis%20Arab%20Precursor%20Ibn%20Zafar%20al%20Siqilli.pdf