Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran - Marlow, L. (Professor of Religion and Program Director for Middle Eastern Studies., Wellesley College) a Marlow, Louise (Professor of Religion and Program Director for Middle Eastern Studies., Wellesley College)

This book studies the Counsel for Kings as an illuminating commentary on the milieu and polity in which it was written and as a composition that seeks to persuade by drawing allusions between the diverse repertoire of wisdom literature available to the author and his audience and the circumstances of the author's time and place.