Siyasatnama

The Siyāsatnāma / Siyāsat-nāme ( Persian سیاست‌نامه, Book of Statecraft ) is the most famous work of Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092), the Seljuk Imperial Chancellor ( vizier ) and famous statesman of the eleventh century who founded the Nizamiyyah schools in the medieval Islamic Orient.

It is written in the Persian language and consists of 50 chapters on religion, politics and various other topics of the time. The book is a guide for princes, a kind of Islamic Machiavelli , to whose Discorsi and Il Principe it has been compared.

The earliest surviving copy is in the National Library of Tabriz in Iran . It is a valuable and important work of Persian literature . It was first made available in Europe in 1891 by the orientalist Charles Schefer , who had a French translation followed two years later. The German translation by Karl Emil Schabinger was published in 1960 .

literature

• French transl. (1893) , Charles Schefer
• engl. Translator (1960) , Hubert Darke

German translation

• Nizāmulmulk: Siyāsatnāma: Thoughts and Stories. For the first time from Persian into German. transfer u. a. by Karl Emil Schabinger. Freiburg [u. a.]: Alber, 1960
• Karl Friedrich Schabinger Freiherr von Schowingen (ed.), Abū-ʿAlī al-Ḥasan Ibn-ʿAlī Niẓām-al-Mulk, Das Buch der Staatskunst , Manesse Verlag , Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-7175-8098-1