Akhlak-i Muhsini, or, The Morals of the Beneficent, Literally Translated from the Persian… by H. G. Keene.

1850

Shoults Eb 1850 K

Hertford, England: Stephen Austin

Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī (c.840/1436-37 - 910/1504-5) was an influential preacher (Vāʿiẓ) and scholar of Islam who wrote in his life-time some forty works, almost all in Persian. According to reports, his preaching drew large crowds, mainly because of his beautiful voice, rhetorical skills, and ability to explain Qu’ranic verses and prophetic traditions clearly and concisely. Although deemed a populariser, Kāshifī helped document a wide range of knowledge important to the Islamic world. Akhlāq-e muḥsinī (Akhlak-i Muhsini) was a treatise on ethics and statecraft that he completed in 907/1501-2. The Persian scholar, the Rev. Henry George Keene (1781–1864), translated a portion of it as The Morals of the Beneficent. This is a later printing of 1850.